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Kárhozat (1988)

Drama | 116 minutes
3,60 163 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 116 minuten

Alternative title: Damnation

Country: Hungary

Directed by: Béla Tarr

Stars: György Cserhalmi, Vali Kerekes and Gyula Pauer

IMDb score: 7,6 (7.443)

Releasedate: 20 October 1988

Kárhozat plot

The dejected Karrer lives his unspectacular life in isolation from the rest of the world. He spends his days in the ever-falling rain, watching the mining trucks slowly disappear into the distance. Karrer ends up every day in the Titanic Bar where he has a crush on the Singer. Unable to find a way to seduce her, he ends up sending her husband on a dubious smuggling trip for a few days. But Karrer's attentions go unnoticed and he suffers greatly from the humiliating rejections.

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Ferdydurke

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In the highest degree of despair, you are simultaneously immensely far from, and very near...salvation, according to Kierkegaard. In view of his latest work, Tarr will stay well away for the time being. In any case, artistically, which results in very beautiful films.

One magnificent scene after another is strung together here, with that excruciatingly slow moving camera, and with the beautiful score.

The allegorical power of the barges with ore (?) floating on cables with iron consistency finds its most beautiful echo in the row of people dancing at the village festival.

And the only scene that I really couldn't place, reveals itself towards the end of the film, when Karrer, in his bitterness, also falls morally through the ice. Going to the dogs, indeed.

Four stars might be a bit low. Well, that can always be updated. I found the other two I saw from Tarr a bit more impressive, at first.

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Movsin

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This is one of those films where almost every new scene makes you wonder where the image fits somewhere in the picture, or what the point of it is, why it lasts so long or what its possible symbolic meaning is.

"Damnation" is a very special film, photographically very original and at times impressive, which guides you through a very dark and sad story with characters who are at the exact end of their lives (even the dancers at the party cannot laugh and those other gangs we saw looking to the death) in an environment that is literally crumbling, with the only sign of life being a bunch of black, equally meaningless black street dogs. (The fight between them and the main character who lowers himself with this is a strong scene that clearly symbolizes his disappointment).

All in all, the film manages to fascinate, partly due to the strong performances, but admittedly that certain conversations and monologues are not immediately susceptible to any understanding and start to weigh on the experience, for me anyway.

Film about inaccessibility in life, failures or actually about a mess, nothing more.

Won a Culture Prize in Cannes at the time and he is at that level.

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De filosoof

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You have to guess at the meaning of the film, although it is clear that the main character - and with him probably the whole village or even the country or communism - stands for decay and ruin: there is no trust or hope left so that he can take his life. , which has become detached and isolated because it is based on distrust, has in fact already given up. It is not for nothing that his favorite café is called Titanik Bar and just like on that sinking ship, the music keeps playing and life goes on anyway: there is always love with dancing and sex with which one connects with the other and for a moment the earthly worries and misery transcends, even if it is against a hopeless and, above all, rain-soaked backdrop.

I must have missed a lot of symbolism, but I thought it was mainly a boring film, because nothing really happens and the images, characters and story didn't move me, although that may be the intention because it puts us in the same depressed position as the people in the film.

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