The Man from London 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 [...]

THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part I THE MAN FROM LONDON: Part II We then follow Maloin to his home, where Tarr offers some great scenes of him trying to sleep and dreaming of the prior night. We also see his protectiveness toward his daughter, Henriette (Erika Bok), and his arguments with his nameless wife (played by Swinton), who comes off as a typical harridan. All [...]