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Looking for reviews of films directed by Béla Tarr? Cinafilm has a total of 415 reviews across 4 movies directed by Béla Tarr.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 79%.
Satantango is Béla Tarr's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 100 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Béla Tarr is Autumn Almanac, with a score of 71% based on 13 reviews.
Béla Tarr (born July 21, 1955) is an acclaimed Hungarian film director. Much of his work is marked by philosophical elements and a pessimistic view of humanity. His films utilize unconventional storytelling methods, such as long takes and/or non-professional actors to achieve realism.
Debuting with his film Family Nest in 1979, Tarr underwent a period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematography of Tarr's films gradually changed; Damnation (1988) was shot with languid camera movement aimed at establishing ambience. It marked Tarr's earliest experimentation with philosophical themes, focused mostly on bleak and desolate representations of reality. Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued this approach; both are considered by some critics to be among the greatest films ever made. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man From London.
Frequent collaborators of Tarr include his wife Ágnes Hranitzky, novelist László Krasznahorkai, film composer Mihály Víg, cinematographer Fred Kelemen, and actress Erika Bók. After the release of his film The Turin Horse (2011), Tarr announced his definitive retirement from film direction. He has been teaching at the Sarajevo Film School since.
Béla Tarr has directed films starring János Derzsi, Mihály Kormos, Székely B. Miklós and Gyula Pauer.
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