Once in one correspondence in the TG channel, film critic Sergei Kudryavtsev advised me to watch the film Theo Angelopoulos “Landscape in the Fog” / TOπίο στην ομίχλη, 1988, yesterday I watched it. I'll tell you, it's a really great movie, but I won't recommend it to anyone.
The film is not realistic, but rather a parable. The two
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Once in one correspondence in the TG channel, film critic Sergei Kudryavtsev advised me to watch the film Theo Angelopoulos “Landscape in the Fog” / TOπίο στην ομίχλη, 1988, yesterday I watched it. I'll tell you, it's a really great movie, but I won't recommend it to anyone.
The film is not realistic, but rather a parable. The two children, a teenage girl named Vula and her five-year-old brother Alexandros, live with their mother in Athens, mostly only communicating with each other, and their mother returns home late at night when they sleep. Many days they go to the station, watching the departure of the train to Germany, but each time they return home. In those fairy tales that they tell each other, says, of course, the older sister, constantly appears the image of the father, whom they saw only in their imagination, their mother suggested to them that their father lives in Germany, so they are obsessed with the dream to go there to at least meet their father. And one day they still decide to take this step. Of course, they have no money, so the first controller drops them off the train, they tell the policeman that they were going to their uncle, to whom they are brought, but the uncle is distinguished by the same lack of empathy, as, apparently, their mother, he wants nothing to do with them, says that his father in Germany mother invented everything, so they are taken to the police station, from where they manage to escape. And their wanderings begin, on the way they meet some people, some of whom turn out to be a good person, and some are a complete scum. Eventually they reach the border, but will they achieve their goal, or is this landscape in the fog just a play of their imagination? Or is it dispelling the fog of their dreams and they fall into reality? Everyone is free to think as his own imagination tells him.
Theo Angelopoulos often turns to the topic of people’s search for something important for themselves, to the topic of relationships between people, to the topic of human feelings, and here we see this. The kids play great.
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