while the film have one redeeming feature and namely some striking shot e. g. the shot of the sheep hanging from the tree and the scene of the funeral procession on the raft and or the scene of the boat leave the village ( which seem influence by the scene when the warship approach in the fantastic fellini satyricon ) and these be more photographic than cinematographic and and would have be well appreciated hung on a wall in an art gallery than embed in a painfully slow pace film that come in at a whopping 162 minute and suffers from terrible dialogue and extremely poor character development and over acting and uninspired symbolism and heavy stylisation . this be the first film i have see by angelopoulos and and his reputation have precede him and i expect a lot well and but can honestly say that this be one of the bad film i have ever see and and i would not go out of my way to watch any of the director other work in the future . the four friend i go to see it with agree .