Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, Gábor Balogh, János Balogh
Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Ba...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006
Stats: 77 reviews
Bela Tarr is a gifted director; fatalistic characters, grimey and drenched locals, and exquisite black & white cinematography. With his long tracking shots he allows his characters to move uninterrupted through their worlds; making them and their environments cohesive and believa...( read more)
Although he made a number of feature films previous to Damnation, this is where Bela Tarr found his trademark style. It was also his first collaboration with novelist and country man Laszlo Krasznahorkai; a collaboration which continues to this day.
The film opens with now tra...( read more)
The first collaborative project between Hungarian novelist László Krashnahorkai and filmmaker Béla Tarr (along with Tarr's editor and wife, Agnes Hranitzky), Damnation is a bleak and nihilistic portrait of isolation, emotional betrayal, and ennui.
Bela Tarr's cinematography is absolutely brilliant!! The black&white add to the film's nostalgia in an industrial environment...
this is pretty much what despair looks like. a modern wasteland picture, full of minimalistic sequences and everyday life's grief of a lost man.
Hungarian film noir.
Yes, it's about damnation, carrying hell about day to day.
"And all stories end badly, because they are always stories of disintegration. The heroes always disintegrate and they disintegrate in the same way. Because if they didn't disintegrate, it would ...( read more)
The song in the bar! Just look at the poster! Lonely, miserable, bleak, slow! How well this director has captured the human condition!
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