eternity and a day ( the director really know what he mean ) be an art house movie make after an infallible recipe to win critical acclaim and eventually those great prize of the broken hearted that will never make a blockbuster . the ingredient of the recipe be quite simple represent you take a famous actor that already star in a few cult or art movie and namely bruno ganz and have him play after a script write by a famous screenwriter who be behind many successful art movie and namely tonino guerra and add the name of a famous director already acclaim a a master on the whole thing and you have . this . first of all and i admire bruno ganz in his original voice ( the dubbing be atrocious and i mean it be so dam obvious that they felt the need to get ganz to make the credit sound appeal . ) an actor with a wide range of possibility who fail to work his charm on you because he be give very little to work on . this be the responsibility of t. guerra and a name that i have come to hate because and even if i agree that la notte be a masterpiece and laventura come pretty close and i see them mostly a the result of antonioni vision and and guerra late project convince me he wasn not much of a screenwriter after all . make a script that be the basis of an elliptical and action free and blank metaphor full movie such a this one be again an argument to support the idea that sparkly credit ( give u the palm dor . ) be the only reason why his presence be solicit . so and the story and if any and be a combination of at least four movie that i can think of on the spot represent mostly wild strawberry ( with the lonely and age man with an unfulfilled life who ponder about the reason one life and what be the best decision in life . also the old man appear project a old in his memory ) and laventura ( guerra for starter and also the attempt of the main character to desperately give a meaning to one life and and the metaphor associate with the sea ) and death in venice ( the metaphor of the sea and the relation between an old artist and a child who inspire him to find the meaning of life and love ) and eye wide shut ( a long shot but the child sale remind me of that secret organization ) . give caesar his due and take those movie reference from this one what remain be an intolerable bore with the camera lingering in a meaningless manner on . whatever in order to fill the wide hole in the ozone layer of the poetic atmosphere . and i need four coffee cup to finish this movie .