Bleu Poster
8Dec11
Epic originally means long narrative poetry, which is exactly what Satantango is.
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Aquieu
5May12
My mother's the sea... / My father's the earth, / my name is tango... tango... tango... / My father's the sea, / My mother's the earth...
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Kyle Petty
19Mar12
I saw Béla Tarr’s 7 hour epic Sátántangó on a scratchy 35mm print at the Harvard Film Archive the other day. At times it was tedious, but overall it was one of the most ominous and haunting experiences I’ve had in the cinema. It's worth it to seek out a film screening of this instead of settling for the DVD.
Jordan K. Ellis likes this
my nigga totoro
21Feb12
Godard once said that film began with Griffith and ended with Kiarostami; apparently he's never seen a Tarr film.
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Sean
15Jan12
To quote one of the characters in this film, I plodded and I plodded and I plodded. watching this film is an experience and a loooooooong half, some of the finest acting I've ever seen, real and raw. I was most impresed by the actor who played Irimias, his whole speech with the dead girl on the table was mesmerizing. Tarr's direction and the cinematography are brilliant as well.
Michael Convery
10Jan12
Imagine a Hell in which the fires have died and all that remains is the mud of ash and long spent tears, and there was never a Heaven to begin with. This is not a film to love. This is not a film to recommend. This is a film to experience.
Arian Raeisi and The Macho King The Illmatic One like this
Howard Orr
18Dec11
The greatest film of the last twenty years in my opinion. Perhaps the only great film of the last twenty years.
mfg
6Dec11
This film is more of an experience, and epic is not an accurate word to describe it. Epic would imply chaotic action sequences and explosions; instead we get a subtle, heartbreaking, and masterful study of corrupted human souls. Satantango has completely changed my outlook on what meaningful filmmaking can be, and what filmmaking can actually achieve. Not a single minute of this 7.5 hour movie feels wasted.
Lefteris Becerra
31Oct11
un documento sobre las posibilidades del cine más allá de las restricciones del cine convencional de corte industrial. un testimonio sobre el arte del siglo xx. una experiencia apabullante para cualquier cinéfilo. un deber para la conciencia humana de sensibilidad ética y estética
Langston Young
9Oct11
A film so visionary and colossal in scope that I wanted to give something back to it. THIS is truly an experience.
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Judicial Joe
25Sep11
Warning: this film will alter your sense of time and the cinema, leaving you in a temporary state of trance. Not for the faint of thought.
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Judicial Joe
26Sep11
If someone brought a print of this to a theater in Austin or Houston, I would clear the time from my schedule to see it. The comparisons to Van Gogh and Sartre are accurate.
David M.K.
26May11
For people who really like motion pictures, but without all that pesky motion. It's like Andy Warhol's Empire... without the sense of humor.
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Kid Sisyphus
26May11
How do you watch a 7 1/2 hr. long movie? I can't even work that long and they pay me for it.
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David M.K.
26May11
You watch it in installments. Long, torturous installments. Read through some of the accolades for this pretentious behemoth below. Somebody calls it 'shattering.' OM, as they say, FG. I think these people are about to ascend into Valhalla -- or else they do far too many drugs. A test pattern is shattering too.
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David M.K.
8Oct11
H. K., I myself don't care what Jonathan Rosenbaum or the 'universe' thinks. My own opinion holds sway in my portion of the world. And 'almost universally considered a masterpiece' is a gross exaggeration, considering 99.9999% of the universe has yet to see this. (For good reason.) You're entitled to your little opinion, sure, but why are you so upset that other people don't like this? Are YOU Bela Tarr?
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H. K. ‡
10Oct11
David M.K., do I really sound upset, or are you just trying to belittle me? I'm not upset, in fact I was trying to be as cordial as possible, but it's hard to get that across in writing. So, if I sounded aggressive, etc, I apologize, that wasn't intentional. I'm merely suggesting that you think outside of the box that your glib comments clearly suggest you are in. That is the point of this website: discussion. Not everyone on here is a troll. Your opinions are uncommon, so I jumped on the opportunity to talk about them. Anyway, you're right, almost no one has seen this. I should have said that Satantango is almost universally considered a masterpiece by those who have seen it. Of course, I'm sure you knew exactly what I meant to begin with. Would you care to discuss it now, or should I drop it? I am sincere in my desire to talk about this movie. † Vellaem, why do you think this is "long and tedious" or consists of huge swaths of nothing in which you are forced to reflect existentially on your own mortality in order to stave off boredom? Have you seen it yet?
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Ademption
10Oct11
I saw Wreckmeister Harmonies, read a bit about Satantango, checked the running time, and did a few logical gymnastics. As I said, I have seen Berlin Alexanderplatz and liked it, and it is twice as long. So, there is hope that maybe I'll grow ill, be bedridden, and finally get around to seeing Satantango and joining converted, or I will continue to hobble along deaf and blind to the masterpieces that go unwatched and yet somehow make it through life ok.
