"There is something almost tormenting and inhuman about the cinema of Hungarian director Béla Tarr. The characters and faces feel foreign or even alien, as well as the situations they find themselves in. It is as if an apathetic fisherman has hooked something more alive even than fish that refuses to resist. But isn’t resistance a condition of life, or is it just the way we have come to think of it? The famous escape – what Fitzgerald calls ‘the journey into a trap’ – is an opportunity or a crack, an image of the resistance-against-and-beyond the already monolithic rolling of the hours, but not salvation, never salvation. Tarr makes me want to help the catch, to unhook it and throw it back into the depths from which it came. But I know – its wounds are incurable. ...”
2012 January: The Man from London, 2012 January: The Turin Horse, 2022 September: Damnation (1988), 2022 September: : Sátántangó (1994)
The Turin Horse (2011)
