Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)

Eternity And A Day traces the final days of Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his long-dead wife, Anna (Isabelle Renauld), who wrote about an enchanted summer day they spent thirty years ago. From that point, Alexandre embarks on a mystical journey through his past and present. Realizing that after spending his entire life chasing after the words of poems and novels, Alexandre wants one final chance to capture the lost precious moments of true happiness, even if only for one day.

“Eternity and a Day features all Angelopoulos’ stylistic trademarks: mesmerising long takes that suspend the viewer’s sense of time, a fully integrated use of the spoken word and Eleni Karaindrou’s elegant and allusive scoring, visual motifs that return with obsessive insistence.” - Sight & Sound