László Krasznahorkai Articles

A londoni férfi / The Man from London (2007) Direction: Béla Tarr Screenplay: Béla Tarr and László Krasznahorkai; from Georges Simenon's novel Cast: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Ági Szirtes, János Derzsi, Erika Bók, István Lénárt     By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Style over substance. That is the plaint of many a critic when they come across a film or book or any work of [...]

THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part I From Satantango, Tarr does the almost inverse of what he did with the Damnation sequence, taking several great scenes of people at a bar, and invoking a similar scene in a pool hall in The Man from London. But unlike a similar single scene in Werckmeister Harmonies, which illuminates the lead character’s inner self, the sequence in The Man [...]