The score for Theo Angelopoulos' Palme d'Or-winning film was composed by Eleni Karaindrou, whom Time magazine hailed as "Greece's most expressive contemporary composer." "Ulysses' Gaze" demonstrated worldwide the ability of Karaindrou's themes to stand on their own. Her musical motifs have been described as "dark and melancholic, steeped in red wine and salty seawater, at once plaintive and erotically lyrical." In her composition for "Eternity and a Day," Karaindrou poetically employs traditional Greek folk instruments, particularly the clarinet, whose sound seems to weep in the mountain air or hover above a rich drone of strings.
