Today I watched a European old-fashioned movie called “The Dust of Time”, which was directed by Theo Angelopoulos and is starring Willem Dafoe. A slight knowledge of German and Russian stimulates the impression of this movie. It is a fiction about a director of movie who produces the story of his mother and father during the cold war with the secret police and the concentration camp. The main theme of the story is historical repetition of the social transition. Despite not entirely the same as before, the release from the cold war and some unknown threat to the future in the new (21st) century are symbolized by mental difficulty of the director’s daughter, accompanied tramps and the death of the director’s mother and Jacob, who lost the place they can live. The movie has classical but good techniques of old-fashioned scratchy quality of movie, camera works of long shots and effective noise of surroundings as ‘back ground music'. It is Angelopoulos’s posthumous work and not the best, but a good movie of mainstay.
