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Bela Tarr
The Collection
The Béla Tarr Collection Damnation Werckmeister Harmonies The Man From London The extraordinary Hungarian director Béla Tarr is one of the world s most original and acclaimed contemporary filmmakers. In a body of work concerned with metaphysical explorations of the human condition, he has created an uncompromising, innovative and utterly engrossing cinematic world. Damnation (Kárhozat) In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer, a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world, but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. Tarr's immaculately photographed and composed film is about eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. One of the few genuinely visionary filmmakers Gus Van Sant Hungary 1987 120 mins approx Hungarian with English subtitles Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmoníak) The population of a desolate provincial town on the Hungarian plain await the arrival of a circus that features the stuffed carcass of a whale and a mysterious Prince. Its appearance disturbs the order of the populace, unleashing a torrent of violence and beauty. An out and out masterpiece The Independent on Sunday Hungary 2000 145 mins approx Hungarian with English subtitles The Man From London (A Londoni Férfi) When a withdrawn and reclusive railway signalman witnesses a murder, his life is transformed and he is forced to confront issues of morality, sin, punishment and the line between innocence and complicity. Based on a novel by thriller writer Georges Simenon, this hypnotic film bears all the distinctive trademarks of Tarr's universe.