The Suspended Step of the Stork(To meteoro vima tou pelargou)
Dir: Theo Angelopoulos
Greece/France/Italy/Switzerland, 1991, Greek/English, 150mins, 35mm
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Karr
“How many borders do we have to cross before we reach home?” The aging, reclusive refugee is believed to be a famous Greek politician missing years ago, now living among refugees from different countries who are waiting to start life anew “somewhere else”. Told from the perspective of a young journalist who seeks to ascertain his identity, it is a prophecy about the “melancholy at the end of the century”, in which Angelopoulos weaves a poetical allegory on borders, refugees, a changing world in our turbulent age – and the possibility of a “new humanism” evoked in an almost mythical closing image of refixing communications. Screening with short film Three Minutes (2007, 3’)
Cannes Film Festival: In Competition
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-29 (Sat)
17:25Cancelled 2022-02-27 (Sun)
15:30
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction