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7 February Eye is closed

still from Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, HU/FR/DE 2000)

still Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, HU/FR/DE 2000)

still from Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, HU 1994)

still Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, HU 1994)

still from Damnation (Béla Tarr, HU 1988)

still Damnation (Béla Tarr, HU 1988)

Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

Eye Filmmuseum, © Marcus Koppen

poster Damnation (Béla Tarr, HU 1988)

still from Family Nest (Béla Tarr, HU 1979)

still Family Nest (Béla Tarr, HU 1979)

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Béla Tarr’s first feature-length film is a docudrama about a young couple with a child, who live with the young man’s parents. The cramped living space leads to tension and conflict, which puts the marriage under intense pressure. New 2K restoration.

Irén and her young daughter Krisztike are living in a small, cramped flat in a suburb. They have to share a room and kitchen with four family members of her husband, who is in the army. In this confined space, every little problem ends in a huge argument. In addition, Irén’s father-in-law fuels his son’s jealousy and turns him against her. Irén breaks in to a miserable, temporary flat in the hope that she and the child will be able to stay there. They are convinced a flat of their own will solve all their problems.

Family Nest

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Béla Tarr made an elusive, melancholy film about the approaching end of Communism. Grey shades and shadows give this existential film noir parable on desperation an almost abstract beauty amidst rain, mud and crying dogs. New 4K restoration.

Since being fired, Karrer leads a withdrawn existence in a drab industrial city in rural Hungary; he spends his evenings in the Titanic Bar, where he stares, smitten, at the singer. It doesn’t get him anywhere. She’s already married.

Damnation

This symphony in black and white is a triumph of visual storytelling. Béla Tarr’s seven-and-a half-hour magnum opus follows the inhabitants of a Hungarian village after the fall of Communism. Alcohol, more alcohol and the rumour that the dead have risen seize the minds of the villagers. Eye has re-released the master filmmaker’s classic.

Tarr made his trilogy Satan’s Tango, Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) in collaboration with the Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai. 

 ‘A dark, funny, apocalyptic allegory’ (Variety)

Sátántangó

Tarr demonstrates that the veneer of human civilization can be wafer-thin inWerckmeister harmóniák, in which a circus comes to a Hungarian provincial town. The locals come under the influence of a mysterious prince who drives the town into a collective frenzy of destruction.

The citizens gawp at the circus’ side-shows such as the mounted skeleton of a whale and a mysterious ‘Prince’ who tries to control them like a true demagogue. Some citizens fall under his spell, losing their grip on events, others try to make a quick buck in the ensuing chaos.

Damnation

Béla Tarr / HU, 1988 / 116 min.

Béla Tarr made an elusive, melancholy film about the approaching end of Communism. Grey shades and shadows give this existential film noir parable on desperation an almost abstract beauty amidst rain, mud and crying dogs. New 4K restoration.

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Sátántangó

Werckmeister harmóniák

Family Nest

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