Tickets
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Conc. - Pay What You Can*
Doors 7.00 PM
Film 7.30 PM
DAMNATION
dir. Béla Tarr
year. 1988
country. Hungary
run-time. 117 mins
rating. 15
“Intellectually provocative and ultimately profoundly affecting.”
Damnation tells the story of Karrer, a depressed man in love with a married singer from a local bar, the Titanik. When the singer breaks off her affair with him, he involves her husband in a smuggling deal. This gets him out of the way, but things don't go as Karrer plans.
Béla Tarr
Born in Pécs in 1955 Béla Tarr is one of the most celebrated auteurs in cinema. Initially intending to become a philosopher Tarr was prevented from attending university by the Hungarian government so pursued his ‘hobby’ of cinema. His films, typically darkly comic and apocalyptic, are usually set against a backdrop of oppression, chaos and occupation.
Starting with 1988’s Damnation Tarr began collaborating with novelist László Krasznahorkai adapting his works Satantango (into a 7 hour epic) and The Melancholy of Resistance. One of the greatest directors of the ‘slow cinema’ movement Tarr retired from filmmaking in 2011 leaving us with a small but unforgettable body of work.
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