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| I have new fascination with this Hungarian director, Bela Tarr. His new film with Tilda Swinton and Miroslav Krobot, The Man From London, is being shown in Chicago tonight as part of the Chicago Film Festival and I'm probably going to go and see it. If you don't know much about Tarr's work (which admittedly I'm new to), he's a very patient film maker, often utilizing lush, incredibly long takes with oblique, surrealistic subject matter; his film The Werckmeister Harmonies has only thirty-eight takes in the 2hrs and 25mins, while Sátántangó is 450 minutes long (which I haven't seen). I'm not an expert on his work but he certainly reminds me of two favorite directors of mine, Andrei Tarkovski(Rus) and Ming-Liang Tsai(Tai), with his languid camera movement and fixed stare on characters who simply unfold on screen through duration and meditation more than through narrative process (really story and characterization seems secondary to overall mood and symbolism) . Some call him a bore while others refer to him as a powerful voice in modern cinema. Anyone seen any of his work? |
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