Surely you have heard many times, before going to the cinema, that this or that film lasts 3 hours, some have even flirted with 4 in one of those Director’s Cuts that, supposedly, guarantee that we will see the purely artistic version originally designed by his director, unlike many of those that arrive at theaters that end up staged and telling the story that the studios themselves impose.
When a movie is too long
That is precisely the key to the duration of some films. James Cameron, for example, has always had the freedom to make his films last as long as he sees fit, without limiting himself to that hour and a half or two hours that seemed the standard until recently. Even so, although 180 or 240 minutes may seem too long, the list of films that we bring you now has nothing to do with even those durations, because we are talking about productions that one goes to the cinema to see in the morning and leaves the next day. practically at night. Do you think we have made a mistake?
Here are the five that last the longest . And they are not a joke…
Logistics
35 days and almost 20 hours are the duration of this documentary film that in 2012 told us the story in real time of the journey that a pedometer makes from a factory in China until it is sold in a store in Stockholm. A film that tries to remind us, surely, of the enormous work and the endless distances that millions of products have to travel every day from their factories of origin to our hands. Try to see it, the same dazzles you.
Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo
21 hours and 5 minutes is the duration of this Bangladeshi film that three years ago wanted to collect and tell some stories that occurred during the War of Independence that took place in the country in 1971. Although Logistics is more of a documentary product than a commercial one, in the case of this Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo reached theaters and had a certain commercial run.
resan
14 hours and 32 minutes is how long this 1987 production lasted in which we learn certain details about something that has become (unfortunately) fashionable again, such as nuclear weapons and spending on maintaining the defense of a country with the consequences social that this causes. Peter Watkins directs this documentary which, to put it in context, was shot near the end of the Cold War.
The flower
13 hours and 29 minutes is the duration of this Argentine film that, surely, is the one that holds the record for any Spanish-language production shot in the world. Argumentally, he chooses to tell us six independent stories with very different visual and cinematographic styles. If you go to see her in the morning, you will leave practically at night.
Out 1
12 hours and 55 minutes for a French production that tells the story of two theater companies that face the challenge of preparing two versions of the same play. The Aeschylus based on the life of the Greek playwright who, as you can imagine, will not only give to see what happens on stage but also beyond the tables. Of these five films, we are surely facing the most cinematographically and artistically recognized of all.