- dir. Theo Angelopoulos
- year. 1972
- country. GREECE
- run-time. 104 mins
- rating. 12
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Film 5pm
During the 1970s Angelopoulos made films that were formally challenging and highly stylised. On occasion these used the narrative conventions of the political thriller to a very different effect to slick films that make up the majority of this season. In Days of ’36 an imprisoned murderer takes a government official hostage in prison sparking a political crisis. Full of Angelopoulos’ trademark symmetrical compositions, this reads like a thriller but through the director’s use of film form resists the normal pleasures of the genre.
States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s is a touring season curated by Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME, produced by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Film Programme Manager, and coordinated by Jessie Gibbs, HOME Film Team. Presented by HOME as part of BFI Thriller, with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.
