don't forget the humour
Damnation review
By
Kobilisy from huddersfield. England
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28th February 2009
I watch Bela Tarr's films over again with endless fascination. The length is not a problem: No longer that many pieces of music. If you can concentrate through a Wagner opera and I hope you can, then a Tarr film is not very long. The films are very much team work but lead by an autocratic man who knows exactly what he wants, hence the seam free quality of the experience, that, rather than the length requires the concentration. I have not found it mentioned but there is much humour in his films, Karrer does a reprise of Gene Kelly, which is then itself parodied near the end of the film. Damnation is maybe my favourite, I suppose for the mesmerising way sound is used to structure a complex web of association, but then each of the three available late films has so much to offer - Eagerly waiting 'The man from London' out on DVD soon
