Sátántangó [SEP] director
Sátántangó
Sátántangó (; meaning 'Satan's Tango') is a 1994 Hungarian art drama film directed by Béla Tarr. Shot in black-and-white, it runs for more than seven hours. It is based on the novel "Satantango" by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who had been providing Tarr with stories since his 1988 film "Damnation". Tarr had wanted to make the film since 1985 but was unable to proceed with the production due to the strict political environment in Hungary.
In the years since
it circles the characters, and sometimes even spans multiple scenes. A shot may, as in the opening of "Sátántangó", travel with a herd of cows around a village, or follow the nocturnal peregrinations of a drunkard who is forced to leave his house because he's run out of alcohol. Susan Sontag has championed Tarr as one of the saviors of the modern cinema, saying she would gladly watch "Sátántangó" once a year.
After "Werckmeister Harmonies" he began filming "A Londoni férfi" (