The extraordinary Hungarian director Bela Tarr is one of the worlds most original and accalimed contemporary filmakers. In a body of work concerned with metaphysical explorations of the human condition he has created an uncompromising innovative and utterley engrossing cinematic world. Titles Comprise: Damnation (K''rhozat): In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. Tarr's immaculately photographed and composed film is about eternal... conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmon''-ak): The population of a provincial town on the Hungarian plains await the arrival of a circus that features the stuffed carcass of a whale and a mysterious Prince. Its appearance disturbs the order of the small town unleashing a torrent of violence and beauty. The Man From London (A Londoni F''rfi): When a withdrawn and reclusive railway signalman witnesses a murder his life is transformed and he is forced to confront issues of morality sin punishment and the line between innocence and complicity. Based on a novel by thriller writer Georges Simenon this hypnotic film bears all the distinctive trademarks of Tarr's universe. [show more]
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Trio of films by Hungarian director Bela Tarr. 'The Man From London' (2007) is a brooding mystery drama loosely based on a lesser-known novel by Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon. Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) is a middle-aged dockland worker whose life changes forever after he witnesses a violent altercation between two men on the harbourside that results in one of them drowning, taking a suitcase full of British sterling down with him. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) tells the story of a small Eastern European town on the brink of disaster. When a showman brings a huge whale to the town, along with a sinister side attraction known as the Prince, Lajos (Lars Rudolph) is fascinated by the creature and sees it as proof of a great cosmic design. However, the whale also proves to be a magnet for unrest, and the mob that gathers outside soon edges towards violence. 'Damnation' (1988) is a bleak meditation on inner conflict and existential angst, filmed entirely in black and white and replete with Tarr's trademark long takes and lingering camerawork. Miklos B. Szekely stars as Karrer, a listless, introspective man who plods his way through his colourless life in quiet desperation. The only light in his life is the bar he frequents, and the beautiful singer (Vali Kerekes) who performs there, with whom Karrer is hopelessly in love. But the singer is married, and Karrer must resort to cunning ways to get her husband, Sebestyen (Gyorgy Cserhalmi), out of the way.
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