theo angelopoulos be one of the great director work in film today . his last film and eternity and a day prove that . this film be and likewise and a masterpiece . it begin in 1919 a a band of refugee return to greece from exile in odessa . there be sepia colored photograph and and in this section of the film and the interior be also sepia color . the film then proceed very elegantly for about the first third of it running time . he use mostly long pan and track shot and and then may stop to focus on a scene a he gradually pull the camera in closer and but almost never to a close up . his sense of mise en scene be superb and but even more he evoke a very specific time and place . his cinematography be superb and and often highly gorgeous . there be a superb scene at jusr about the end of the first third and where eleni and the film principal character and want to leave and walk down to the water . she be suddenly surround by a group of men who begin to dance with her . that scene and the music in it be quite intoxicate . it remind me a little of fellini . the film then darken drastically and become more political and and also somewhat fantastical and non linear and and rather mythic in tone . there be some beautiful and truly remarkable image here the street and the slaughtered sheep hanging from the tree and and a funeral procession in the water with the funeral party on a raft and surround by fish boat all lite by lantern . then there be the final third of the film which take u to ww2 and but the style be quite abstract and elliptical and and where it be very difficult to pinpoint time . by the end her family be destroy and and she become a figure of true euripidean tragedy . it devastate and and suddenly not only mythic but timeless .