The greatest Greek film maker has created yet another timeless masterpiece. He approached and illustrated the cruelty of our society as seen through the eyes of a wise man and an innocent child

What a beautiful film. Dreamlike, poetic, wise; also sober, down-to-earth.Delivers home-truths too: connecting with another human being gives one hope. Connections are possible across age, country, culture gaps. The images are gorgeous, the slowness fits. You have to sit on your impatience now and then. But thats entirely worth it.Also, I loved listening to the Greek language. But that is because I love Greece.It is a film that reminds me of Antonioni's L'Avventura and La Notte; they bring you into a trance where you can tell the beauty of this universe.

During two hours, I've been watching and understanding the man's whole life. His life is poetry as our lives.Theo Angelopoulos shows us a different way of making cinema. Every scene is full of details, full of beautiful images and poetry. It seems like a Greek poem in our days. Ithink it's the best film I ever seen. Word can't explain it.

I guess my fault with this film was going into the cinema with such high expectations. Having read reviews and knowing the film was to be poetical, I was really looking forward to seeing it. It started with an extremely promising sequence with the children on the beach, but all was downhill from there. Suprisingly disappointing.