The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008 · 128 min · EL · 6.5 (35 votes)
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · Starring Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul, Kostas Apostolidis
Drama

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

VIBE

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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