Photo of Gábor Medvigy
Photo of Gábor Medvigy

Gábor Medvigy

'[Calvert Journal on Gábor Medvigy] Medvigy’s hypnotic, roving camera delicately pirouettes through the light and shadows that suffocates the inhabitants of the film [Sátántangó]’s collectivised farm, lulling the audience into a catatonic state and immersing us unreservedly into [Béla] Tarr’s world.'

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    SÁTÁNTANGÓ

    BÉLA TARR Hungary, 1994

    This exquisite restoration of Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr’s magnum opus has been a long time coming. Shot in languorous, extended takes and riven with mordant humour, Sátántangó is a pungent, Beckettian epic of the human condition. Don’t let the running time put you off, this is essential cinema.

    DAMNATION

    BÉLA TARR Hungary, 1988

    Six years before his magnum opus Sátántangó, Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr joined forces with writer László Krasznahorkai for this masterful cosmic burlesque. A noir-inflected tale of betrayal and revenge, Damnation is a perversely powerful plunge into the wretched depths of the human soul.

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