Category: Hungarian Cinema

• Decay of a Mortal God: Béla Tarr’s “Werckmeister Harmonies”

  

  Valuska, a dreamy, and intellectually “slow” postman, with a poetic understanding of his surroundings, stages a little scene with a bunch of weary drunkards, in a bar, at the very beginning of the film. He arranges the drunkards to act the roles of the the Moon and the Earth, as they revolve around the Sun.…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  January 1, 2020

  Béla Tarr, Cinema of the World, European cinema, Great Hungarian Directors, Hungarian Cinema

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