This is an elegaic film that stands in its own right, but which is enhanced by an awareness of Angelopoulos's earlier films.
Nearly all of the director's monumental works are beautifully nuanced investigations of Greek history in the 20th century. This historical enquiry is always set within absorbing narratives.
The latter point is never truer than here in 'Landscape in the Mist', where we follow two children on an emotionally scouring quest to find their father.
The cinematography is brilliant, and is at least as full of memorable scenes as the earlier works.
Made in 1988, 'Landscape in the Mist' also throws a beam forwards in time to anticipate the desperate struggles of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe in the 21st century.