Béla Tarr

Damnation Béla Tarr

"A mid-career masterwork by legendary Hungarian art house auteur Bela Tarr and the first of his internationally acclaimed trilogy of films written in collaboration with author Laszlo Krasznahorkai (including the legendary SATANTANGO). DAMNATION (Karhozat) chronicles the doomed affair between Bar Titanik regular Karrer (SATANTANGO's Miklos B. Szekely) and the cabaret singer (Vali Kerekes) he pines for while scheming to displace her brutish husband (Gyorgy Cserhalmi). A poignant Communism allegory that solidified Tarr's unique aesthetic, DAMNATION is photographed in an exquisitely black & white palette underscored by the mesmerizing long takes that would come to be his trademark.