Damnation
1988
Karrer 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. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away... Read more
| Starring | Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla, Djocko Rossitch |
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| Director | Bela Tarr |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Damnation
Karrer 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. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...
| Starring | Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla, Djocko Rossitch |
|---|---|
| Director | Bela Tarr |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE FILM COMPANY LTD. |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Hungarian |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 23 Feb 2004 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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Long after Gabor Medvigy's meandering monochrome images have faded, the unrelenting bleakness of Bela Tarr's study of an all-encompassing obsession will linger in the mind. Whether it's the sight of outcast Miklos B Szekely peering through the rain to watch his married lover (Vali Kerekes) singing at the Titanic Bar, or the shocking finale, in which he prowls through a pack of scavenging dogs, the film exercises a compulsion that is never diminished by its pessimism. With Szekely's treachery matched by Kerekes's predatory abuse of all the men in her life, this intense picture could almost be called an apocalyptic film noir.
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Béla Tarr is acclaimed a maestro not only in his native Hungary, but in France, North America and by festival... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Remember your a womble...
Bella Taar, who also directed Harmonies, brings us another slow motion analysis of the interconnectedness ( is that a word?) of things.
Never a Saturday night movie, unless you go to certain bearded type of cinemas in London and perhaps Brighton, Bella uses 7 locations for the entire film and a sequence of someone being watched from afar getting into a car and driving away can take up to ten minutes. A film noir, it has brooding elements of emotion trapped and a malevolent overtone, there is a sex scene, but it looks like two people thinking over their phd thesis who happen to be having sex at the time, and the thesis is much more important to them.
Being overworked, perhaps, I nodded off during the middle, so maybe it all happened then, but I don't think so.
This is a meditative little film, something that will give a lot to those who try, but many people will be left by the wayside.
Harmonies is a far superior film, by Taar, also avalible here, try that first is my recommendation. -
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Remember your a womble...
Bella Taar, who also directed Harmonies, brings us another slow motion analysis of the interconnectedness ( is that a word?) of things.
Never a Saturday night movie, unless you go to certain bearded type of cinemas in London and perhaps Brighton, Bella uses 7 locations for the entire film and a sequence of someone being watched from afar getting into a car and driving away can take up to ten minutes. A film noir, it has brooding elements of emotion trapped and a malevolent overtone, there is a sex scene, but it looks like two people thinking over their phd thesis who happen to be having sex at the time, and the thesis is much more important to them.
Being overworked, perhaps, I nodded off during the middle, so maybe it all happened then, but I don't think so.
This is a meditative little film, something that will give a lot to those who try, but many people will be left by the wayside.
Harmonies is a far superior film, by Taar, also avalible here, try that first is my recommendation. -
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