Tickets
Standard - £6
Conc. - Pay What You Can*
Doors 12.30 PM
Film 1.00 PM
Screened with intermissions.
SÁTÁNTANGÓ
dir. Béla Tarr
year. 1994
country. Hungary
run-time. 450 mins
rating. 15
“Critics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom’s criminally undersung geniuses.”
“The marathon Satan’s Tango is a magnum opus to end all magna opera, a dark, funny, apocalyptic allegory of the Hungarian psyche that stimulates, irritates, soothes and startles with blinding strokes of genius in equal turn.”
Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever.
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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