A film to be endured, yes, but also a film to be treasured.
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04/22/07
Satantango (1994)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
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.... [More]
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Reviews for Satantango
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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?
04/16/02
Top CriticIt is a good movie. It's a great movie, in fact, one of the greatest of all movies.
07/25/08
Those with a strong will for art house extremes will strike gold here, while those demanding speed and snap may doze throughout the endeavor.
07/27/08
In Sátántangó, life is beautiful and grotesque by turns, and never less than mesmerizing.
02/01/07
Just as the film eschews typical filmic moralizing and simplification, it also casts off the typical language of film.
04/15/02
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.
05/20/03
It is an insidious yet ambiguous political nature that characterizes Sátántangó as a Hungarian film, in turn perpetuating its obscurity and qualifying its art.
10/24/03
A fascinating seven-hour epic black comedy in entropy (ponderous musings on misery and despair) by the internationally acclaimed Hungarian director Béla Tarr.
02/02/08
Sátántangó is structured in a repetitive chronology that apes the rhythmic tally of the tango.
10/10/03
This startling, apocalyptic work is sometimes over-extended, but it builds to a powerful, rhythmic climax of breakdown and withdrawal.
02/09/06
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03/26/09
One of the great, largely unseeable movies of the last dozen years.
01/10/06
Top CriticCritics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom's criminally undersung geniuses.
10/05/07
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.
10/20/09
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