The films are a commentary on the fragility of human civilization unexpected, threatening developments appear to bring out the animal in man. With Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister harmóniák (2000), Sátántangó belongs to a trilogy that was created in collaboration with the Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai. The employees of the former collective farm are distraught after the fall of communism certainties are gone, what remains is the village pub, gossip and the terrifying suspicion that the dead will rise again. In twelve ‘movements’, shot in long takes in enchanting black and white, Tarr takes you to a grimy village in Hungary. Sátántangó is structured like a tango through the past and present. Tarr kept his word – new feature films have ceased to appear. Tarr announced in 2011 that The Turin Horse would be his last feature film. Yet that is what the Hungarian director Béla Tarr (1955, Pécs) demands of his audience, and that this is not a problem, as the lyrical reactions of film viewers and criticism at the release of Sátántangó in 1994 and later re-screenings proved. It seems almost impossible: sitting in the cinema chair for a working day, watching one and the same film. Drink, lots of drink and the rumor that the dead have risen take possession of the imagination. Béla Tarr’s seven-and-a-half-hour magnum opus follows the inhabitants of a Hungarian village after the fall of communism. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.A symphony in black and white, a masterpiece of visual storytelling. “His inexhaustible yet claustrophobic prose, with its long, tight, weaving sentences, each like a tantalising tightrope between banality and apocalypse, places the author in a European tradition of Beckett, Bernhard, and Kafka.” One of the most mysterious artists now at work.”
“Krasznahorkai is alone among European novelists now in his intensity and originality. At long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius Lszl Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English. “ Satantango is a monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating, and possessed of a distinctive, compelling vision - but a monster nonetheless.The grandeur is clearly palpable.” Adam Thirwell, The New York Review of Books There is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.” “The excitement of Krasznahorkai's writing is that he has come up with his own original forms - and one of the most haunting is his first, Satantango. They are haunting, pleasantly weird, and, ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit.” “He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable.
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