The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008 · 128 min · EL · 6.4 (53 votes)
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · Starring Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul, Kostas Apostolidis · Music Eleni Karaindrou
Drama

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.

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A sweeping, melancholic journey through memory and history. It feels like sifting through faded photographs, where past and present blur into a poignant, dreamlike tapestry of love and loss across continents.

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