Drama
Hungarian
1994 · Directed by Béla Tarr · 432 min
In a decaying farming collective on the Hungarian plain, rain falls and the money is about to run out. Word spreads that a man everyone believed dead is coming back. Told across seven hours in long, patient takes, it is both a bleak human comedy and a slow, hypnotic experience.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of 1990s European art cinema and the clearest statement of Tarr's mature style. It extended the long-take tradition of Jancsó and Tarkovsky to a scale no feature had attempted.
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Treat time as the film's main material: watch how a shot's length changes what you notice about bodies, weather and space.
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