The cinema of Béla Tarr. The circle closes
By: András Bálint Kovács
Series: Directors' Cuts; Directors' cuts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Irvington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231165303
Subjects: Film
Description: The cinema of Béla Tarr' is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács traces the development of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language, the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans.