Once again Theo Angelopoulos (Voyage to Cythera, SFIFF 1986) embarks on a journey with his disquieting yet beautiful Landscape in the Mist. Every day six-year-old Alexander and his older sister Voula wait patiently on the station platform, anticipating the arrival of their absent father. Despite this patient vigil, the now mythical parent never materializes so they hop a train, determined to find him. Alternately exploited and protected, thrown off trains, repudiated by an uncle, brutalized by a truck driver, the two children traverse an adult world which, seen through their young eyes, resonates with the uncanny and surreal. Their odyssey reveals a Greece of empty roads, small towns and deserted beaches. Along the way the bedraggled but undaunted pilgrims meet a kindly member of a wandering theatre troupe who guides them towards the "border." "Light years away from any Spielbergian awe at the wonder of childhood, Angelopoulos' protagonists provide an unblinking look at a social reality that is neither oversimplified nor magically transformed-yet is withal more truly mythical." (Ronnie Schweib, Chicago Reader) Through Arvanitis' stunning camera work and Karaindrou's haunting score, the celebrated Greek director has fashioned something akin to an unabridged fairytale-a story as enchanting as it is eerie.