Pratt Film Society Presents DAMNATION At 5:30PM in ARC, Room E-2
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 @ 9:28 pm
DAMNATION
Directed by Béla Tarr
(1988, Hungary, 116 mins.)
In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer, a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world, but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. Tarr’s immaculately photographed and composed film is about eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. One of Susan Sontag's favorite films, this powerful work reveals the evolution of the cinematic method and dark metaphysical style that Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr made famous in Santantango and Werckmeister Harmonies. Black and white images seem to float out of an endless drunken dream. "Damnation is the ultimate film-noir, a deeply existential rumination on the miserableness of existence and the search for a meaning or a means of escape. - DVD Times
