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Award-winning Greek director Theo Angelopoulos died in an Athens hospital on Tuesday following a road accident. The Greek master was hit by a motorcycle while crossing a street in the evening and later succumbed to internal injuries and a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 76. Angelopoulos was known for such films as 1988’s Landscape In The Mist, 1995’s Ulysses’ Gaze and 1998’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Eternity And A Day. According to reports, Angelopoulos was shooting his latest film, The Other Sea about the Greek debt crisis. Upon the news of Angelopoulos’ passing, Greek government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis told Agence France Presse, “We are all in mourning for this great director, who has honored his homeland with his work.”
R.I.P. Theo Angelopoulos
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Although his films never played at the Multiplex, he was a true visionary who created some of the most striking images and sequences in cinema. (Check out the Collossus of Rhodes hand being lifted out the the harbour in Thessaloniki in Landscape in the Mist). Greece, Europe and the world has lost one of its’ masters. Rest in Peace.
Angelopoulos’ work is an uncompromising devotion to cinema as poetry. His films are elegant, powerful, and eloquent. They are also long and demanding on the part of the spectator, but always well worth the effort. Angelopoulos’ films have something of melancholic, but they are not pessimistic. The melancholy that one feels is the dignity of the heart confronted with the defeat of a vision.