SATANTANGO DISC 1 (1994)

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Plot

A collective farm in disarray. A messianic agitator. And lots of mud & rain, all in Bela Tarr's trademark style: arty black & white cinematography, long slow takes, tracking shots & zooms. The style recalls Tarkovsky but the sensibility is completely different, relentlessly downbeat, squalid, cynical and bleakly, grimly comic. So you get a doctor drinking himself to death, a cat being tortured and a suicidal little girl taking rat poison, all depicted in slow real time takes. One of contemporary cinema's few genuine auteurs; This an epic of almost proposterously epic proportions Chapters: The News is They're Coming Rise From The Dead Know Something.