An allegorical reading of the film Landscape in the mist, directed by Theo Angelopoulos

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https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v15i2.27772
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Angelopoulos, Landscape in the mist, Odyssey, allegory.

Abstract

The text analyzes the film Landscape in the mist (1988), by Theo Angelopoulos. The reading is divided into four moments: the first is devoted to the reading of the Odyssey, more specifically, of the “Telemachy”, as the first four books of this epic supposedly inaugurate a locus in Western literature: the journey in search of the father which echoes strongly in Angelopoulos’ filmic narrative. Then, we visit the concepts of Vaterland (fatherland) and Heimat (homeland) in order to explore the relationship between genealogical origin and the identity of Telemachus. In the third moment, we develop the concept of allegory, according to Walter Benjamin (2013), which supports our interpretation. Finally, we propose our reading of the film, supported by accurate comments by David Bordwell (2008) and Andrew Horton (1997). With this, we aim to show how the identity of the modern man linked to the fatherland or the homeland is no longer so clear to philosophy, as it was in the Odyssey, and neither to the “post-war cinema”, in the words of Bordwell (2008), both intend the relationship between genealogical origin, roots, homeland and identity.

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Gong Li Cheng, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

Graduada em Licenciatura em Letras - Português, Espanhol e suas Literaturas pela UEMS. Atualmente, é mestranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Linguagens da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) - Unidade de Campo Grande. Tem como proposta de dissertação: Travessia dos umbrais da memória em Conhecimento do inferno, de António Lobo Antunes, sob orientação da profa. dra. Rosana Cristina Zanelatto Santos.  Tem interesse em Literatura Brasileira, Literatura Portuguesa, Literatura de Testemunho e nos temas: memória e temporalidade.

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Imagem da capa: "The Artist's Studio, Rue de la Condamine", de Frédéric Bazille

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31-08-2021

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CHENG, G. L. An allegorical reading of the film Landscape in the mist, directed by Theo Angelopoulos. Travessias, Cascavel, v. 15, n. 2, p. e27772, 2021. DOI: 10.48075/rt.v15i2.27772. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/27772. Acesso em: 16 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2021)

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[DT] LITERATURA, CINEMA E INTERMIDIALIDADE: TEXTOS, CONTEXTOS E IMAGENS

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