UID:
kobvindex_ZLB14028628
Format:
1 DVD (ca. 120 Min.)
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Tonformat: DD 2.0
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Beih.
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Bildformat: 16:9 anamorphic widescreen
Content:
Before finding his mature style with Damnation (1988) and its successors, Béla Tarr first built his reputation as a social realist in the manner of Ken Loach, typically using a hand-held camera to shoot pitilessly lacerating studies of human relationships falling apart. Almanac of Fall is closer to Fassbinder, one of Tarr's acknowledged influences: it still shows these early roots (it's about the five inhabitants of a sprawling mansion and the vicious games they play in order to achieve the satisfaction of what is usually only a temporary thrill of one-upmanship), but the visual style has become far more controlled, the camera gliding silently around the house as though attempting to examine its occupants from every possible angle - even from below, in a shot that recalls Hitchcock's famous glass floor in The Lodger. Almost uniquely in Tarr's output, it's in colour, albeit of a highly non-naturalistic kind, dominated by scorching oranges and bilious greens. The opening Pushkin quotation about the devil going round and round in circles establishes the pessimistic tone from the start. (Michael Brookie)
Note:
Ungar. mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
Hungarian
