Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (The Weeping Meadow)

Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (The Weeping Meadow) (2004)

  • 65% of critics liked it
    (26 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (1,356 ratings)

Master Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos wrote and directed this downbeat look at his nation's often blighted history, as seen through the eyes of an unfortunate young couple. In 1919, a band of Greek refugees who had found a home in Odessa are forced to return to their homeland following the… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Romance, Art House & International
In Theaters
Oct 8, 2004 Wide
New Yorker Films

Critic Reviews

  • Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

    The Weeping Meadow doesn't offer quite enough sugar for its harsh medicine to go down easily.

  • Richard James Havis, Hollywood Reporter

    It's a typically poetic film, rich in powerful imagery, which sees a bitter personal tragedy unfold against the major events of 20th century Greece.

  • Ronnie Scheib, Chicago Reader

    We get a distractingly vapid couple who tend to drain the emotional resonance of these extraordinary, ever-shifting tableaux.

  • Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

    Churns like classic tragedy while its pace is set by Angelopoulos' trademark, spooky portentousness.

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    Angelopoulos has created a memorably sweeping survey, but even an epic needs some moments of genuine intimacy.

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