Daily Movie Rec 6/3/2023
Damnation (1988)
"You've killed the love and decency in yourself. Things will end badly for you."
Directed by: Béla Tarr
Cinematography by: Gábor Medvigy
Country: Hungary
Plot:
A dreary man in a dreary world visits dreary bars and a dreary girl.
Reasons to watch:
Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr is one of the closest equivalents cinema has ever gotten to the great 20th-century Russian novelists. Bleak, hopeless stories plagued by morally gray characters in endless loops of confused suffering, as told through Tarr's haunting, penetratingly dreamlike style and fathomless existential musings. It's hard to absorb everything his films have to offer on first viewing, but the voyeuristic cinematography and poetic slow cinema direction - that gazes unflinchingly into the abyss of the human condition - always have a way of sinking into the soul and staying there.
Where to watch:
Mubi/Kanopy
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