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Satantango (1994)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:14

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 7 hrs 15 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: This ambitious, black-and-white, seven-hour Hungarian film from idiosyncratic auteur Bela Tarr follows the inhabitants of a run-down Hungarian village still reeling from the collapse of Communism.... This ambitious, black-and-white, seven-hour Hungarian film from idiosyncratic auteur Bela Tarr follows the inhabitants of a run-down Hungarian village still reeling from the collapse of Communism. Based on Laszlo Karsznahorkai's novel and filmed over a period of two years, the critically acclaimed epic takes the time to explore each character's unique point of view. [More]

Starring: Janos Derzsi

Starring: Janos Derzsi

Director: Bela Tarr

Director: Bela Tarr

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Nov 28, 2006

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Its seven-hour runtime warns off dabblers, the one-screening-a-day bulk defies profit motive, and its protagonists -- Tarr's "poor, ugly, sad, and damned people" -- deny expectations of pleasure. It is also, at times, funny as hell.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/20/09
Nick Pinkerton
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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03/26/09
Derek Elley
Derek Elley
Variety
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Those with a strong will for art house extremes will strike gold here, while those demanding speed and snap may doze throughout the endeavor.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
07/27/08
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

It is a good movie. It's a great movie, in fact, one of the greatest of all movies.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
07/25/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A fascinating seven-hour epic black comedy in entropy (ponderous musings on misery and despair) by the internationally acclaimed Hungarian director Béla Tarr.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
02/02/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Critics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom's criminally undersung geniuses.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/05/07
Ed Halter
Ed Halter
Village Voice
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A film to be endured, yes, but also a film to be treasured.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
04/22/07
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

In Sátántangó, life is beautiful and grotesque by turns, and never less than mesmerizing.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
02/01/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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This startling, apocalyptic work is sometimes over-extended, but it builds to a powerful, rhythmic climax of breakdown and withdrawal.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

One of the great, largely unseeable movies of the last dozen years.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/10/06
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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It is an insidious yet ambiguous political nature that characterizes Sátántangó as a Hungarian film, in turn perpetuating its obscurity and qualifying its art.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
10/24/03
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Sátántangó is structured in a repetitive chronology that apes the rhythmic tally of the tango.

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10/10/03
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Slant Magazine

At seven hours, Bela Tarr's 1994 Satantango is one of those unusual works of contemporary art that demand from the audience a concentrated commitment -- the luxury of time.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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How can I do justice to this grungy seven-hour black comedy (1994), which in many ways impressed me more than any other film of the 90s?

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04/16/02
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Just as the film eschews typical filmic moralizing and simplification, it also casts off the typical language of film.

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04/15/02
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
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