Béla Tarr will not be attending tonight's screening of The Man from London at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Béla Tarr retrospective, which began earlier this month, comes to a close this evening.
In Screen Daily, Jonathan Romney describes The Man from London as "a tour de force of camerawork, not only in the textures of light (moving in a single take through glaring sun, inky obscurity and misty grey haze), but also in the painstakingly choreographed movements, which give the film the edge of a forensic investigation."
The Man from London caused quite a stir at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Some loved it; some hated it. I should add that in his review, Romney also says that Tarr's first film made outside of Hungary (it was shot in Corsica) is "a mystery story cloaked in such stygian darkness that some viewers may succumb to eye strain before its enigmas are unfolded."
Adapted by Béla Tarr and László Krasznahorkai from a Georges Simenon novel, The Man from London stars Miroslav Krobot and Tilda Swinton.
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