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Ulysses' Gaze

1995 · 176 min

A slow, mournful journey through a fractured landscape, heavy with memory and loss, demanding patience and reflection.

Overview
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • war
  • isolation
  • art
Places
  • road trip
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, history, war
Directed by
Theo Angelopoulos
Written by
Theo Angelopoulos
Starring
Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Veggos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos, Dora Volanaki, Mania Papadimitriou, Giorgos Konstas
Music
Eleni Karaindrou
Cinematography
Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos
Runtime
176 min
Country
Greece, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Albania
Languages
Albanian, Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Kurdish, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian

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