2008年5月9日星期五

Trilogy 2: The Dust of Time

早前據聞安哲羅普洛斯(Angelopoulos)的希臘三部曲之二《歲月風塵》(The Dust of Time,暫譯)會參加今年的康城電影節,如今看來電影還未完成。

安氏的三部曲參照希臘底比斯(Thebes)的悲劇故事。首部曲《悲傷草原》雖然沒有安氏過去電影的深度,但實在很美,你看看電影的預告片就是以一幅幅如畫的劇照構成的 slideshow。加上卡蘭德若(Karaindrou)的音樂(我強調是音樂不是配樂),這就是現代希臘悲劇、二十世紀的希臘史詩。

古希臘悲劇相信源自酒神祭祀。在酒神祭祀慶典,悲劇就是以三聯劇(trilogy)的形式上演。

這部電影的 cast 實在...主角是飾演導演 A 的威廉達科(Willem Dafoe,《殺戮戰場》、《我和殭屍有份合約》),飾演他的母親、其中一個又喚作 Eleni 的 Irene Jacob (《兩生花》、《紅》), Bruno Ganz (《柏林蒼穹下》、《一生何求》、《希特拉的最後12夜》),夏菲基圖(Harvey Keitel,《窮街陋巷》、《鋼琴別戀》、《尤利西斯的凝望》), Alexandra Maria Lara(《希特拉的最後12夜》),還有飾演 A 的父親的 Michel Piccoli(《不羈的美女》)。

劇情簡介可在其中一家製作公司的網站找到:

Past and present intertwine as A., a film director in his fifties finds himself becoming a part of the film he is making, a chronicle of the tumultuous life and enduring love of his parents Spyros and Eleni. The historical events that marked their lives have their present day parallels. For Spyros and Eleni it was the Second World War which separated them after he immigrated to America in search of a better life as a musician and the Greek civil war that kept them apart when she ended up in the Soviet Union along with other political exiles. For A. it is the Vietnam War, which forces him to flee to Canada and the fall of the Berlin Wall, which signals the birth of a new era... more

而對於安氏電影極其重要的卡蘭德若的音樂也可在 YouTube 找到:




悅耳的旋律,三拍子,簡單的和聲,感覺電影中也許有安哲羅普洛斯鍾愛的手風琴版本,又或者伴着好像已成為安氏一個母題的雙人舞。雙人舞據說源自希臘戲劇。

期待《歲月風塵》。也期待可能喚作《永恆的回歸》的第三部曲。永恆的回歸,正是古希臘畢達哥拉斯學派及斯多葛學派,和後來尼采提倡的輪迴概念。推崇源自酒神祭祀的酒神精神的尼采,就認為酒神精神帶來悲劇的誕生。

5 則留言:

Eric Spanner 說...

主題曲聽起來有點《養蜂人》和《霧中風景》主題音樂的影子。

Eric Spanner 說...

終於面世了:
http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=4&page=724&director=Angelopoulos&MovieID=1209

Alan 說...

Thank Eric for his reminder of the premier.

The avant premiere screening of the film was held at Olympion Theater in the context of the 49th Thessloniki International Film Festival on 22 Nov 2008. Thessloniki was one of the scenes at the beginning of the first film of the trilogy.

Time, a basic element of Angelopoulos’ film was the most touched upon topic during the press conference a few hours before the premiere. ‘Dust of Time is a film that treats the past as if it were in the present’, commented Theo Angelopoulos when asked to what extend the film involves contemporary Greece and went on by saying: ‘In Western philosophy we accept that past and present are separate ideas. In the East they consider time as one. We are past and present at the same time. History is not something that happened once and was lost forever after. When we ignore it we are incapable of understanding the present. How can someone comment on what’s happening today without relating it to what has happened yesterday or many years ago?’

Eric Spanner 說...

他的回顧展,你會去看嗎。

Alan 說...

Too busy recently. Have you seen The Dust of Time?