Damnation
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2h 1m
Directed by Béla Tarr | 116 mins | 1987
Tarr’s first collaboration with writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai produces a quintessential Eastern bloc brew of voluptuous gloom and romantic doom that became the filmmaker’s defining style. The story of a hard-drinking man, the wicked cabaret singer he loves, and her unwise husband is shot in shadowy black-and-white with winding camera movements by the great Gabor Medvigy.
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