Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
New Yorker Films | Release Date: September 14, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
There are moments of such breathtaking grace and artistry that you'd be forgiven for thinking you're watching the most beautiful movie ever made. Read full review
100
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
In his fourth outing with the director, cinematographer Andreas Sinanos produces stunning scene after stunning scene, almost as if each frame were a small painting. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's a gorgeous and resonant work, full of the memorable images and passages of pathos the director's fans expect. It's also a painful, unforgiving film, the kind of thing that sharply divides audiences from critics. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRichard James Havis
It's a typically poetic film, rich in powerful imagery, which sees a bitter personal tragedy unfold against the major events of 20th century Greece. Although the director doesn't mine any new ground here, either in terms of style or content, it's still a pleasure to sit through nearly three hours of perfectly controlled, visually evocative filmmaking. Read full review
80
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
A beautiful and devastating meditation on war, history and loss. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Certainly has the look and feel of a masterpiece, but it's missing the emotional core that most moviegoers need. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderRonnie Scheib
Unfortunately, instead of the usual larger-than-life male figures--Marcello Mastroianni, Harvey Keitel, Bruno Ganz--of Angelopoulos's recent films, we get a distractingly vapid couple who tend to drain the emotional resonance of these extraordinary, ever-shifting tableaux. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
How can one not revere a movie director who causes the printers of travel brochures to cry out in distress? The Greece of sun, sand, and sea is not open for business here, Angelopoulos having decided that grandeur, grief, and grayness are more his line of work. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
The Weeping Meadow shares the awed sense of solemn apocalypse with his (Angelopoulos) signature films, but it's lighter, more musical and folktale-ish. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
The movie plays like a career summation in which the 68-year-old writer-director has simply run out new ideas. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The imagery eventually becomes the only reason to keep watching. This is the first of an announced trilogy, but it already feels as long as the 20th century itself. Read full review
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