THE MAN FROM LONDON Review II
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 from London plays as a sort of grotesque bit, tossed in just for shock value.
In Satantango, the bar scenes play out much longer; one scene, in particular, is shown from two different perspectives at two different points in the film. This causes a parallax that is absent in the pool hall scene, which also fails [...]
by Dan Schneider | August 3, 2009
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Tags: Béla Tarr, DVDs, Film Reviews, Fred Kelemen, László Krasznahorkai, Mihály Vig, Mystery Movies, The Man from London
