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[TRAILER] Karrer (Miklós Székely B.) plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer (Vali Kerekes). But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away... Damnation (Hungarian: Kárhozat) is a 1988 black-and-white Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 1, 2024 - 1 comment

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse. The final film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr, 155 minutes in length but composed of only 30 shots.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 6, 2019 - 2 comments

Bela Tarr’s seven hour epic of 1990s rural Hungary. Residents of a collapsing collective farm scheme about what to do with a large cash payment. Plans change when they discover that Irimias, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village. [more inside]
posted by mrcrow on Dec 2, 2019 - 2 comments