«In Greece, it is said, common people love and speak poetry. Angelopoulos, very uncommonly, finds poetry in corruption, betrayal, and witness: in children estranged from their father, in a country estranged from its heritage, in love's paralysis, the impossibility of art, the mists of death... above all, in the rich and resonant silence around him: that silence of history, of the land, of the mountains, ocean, and sky... all viewed with the fixed gaze through which, like Conrad, he finally makes us see.»

Michael Wilmington

«One is not surprised that there should appear in Greece a film director for whom poetry and philosophy are one, for whom knowledge enlivens aesthetic perceptions, for whom, finally, cinema is at once an interrogation and an affirmation. But it is beautiful that an artist is able at the same time to sing about the world and to question it.»

Michel Ciment

«History and power are in the center of his universe, where the harms of all kinds of totalitarian ideology are clearly manifest. However, the ironic wisdom avoids didacticism in favor of a personal poetic medication, an evocative epic and lyrical reflection on the history of Greece.»

Yvette Biro

«Angelopoulos can be counted as one of the few filmmakers in cinema's first hundred years who compel us to redefine what we feel cinema is and can be.»

Andrew Horton