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Sátántangó
Fri Nov 29: 2.00pm Sat Nov 30: 2.00pm Sun Dec 01: 2.00pm
$17 General Admission $13 NWFF Member
** Your ticket for this 7.5-hour film is valid for any screening day, with in and out privileges. PLUS: Free popcorn refills for all! **
Béla Tarr Hungary, Germany & Switzerland 1994 7h 30m
About ** Newly restored in 4K for its 25th anniversary! **
This seminal work of slow cinema follows members of a defunct agricultural collective living in a seemingly post-apocalyptic landscape in the long shadow of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious messianic character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyones lives forever.
Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gabor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Satantango unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Renowned auteur Bela Tarrs vision, aided by longtime collaborator Agnes Hranitzky, is wholly unique, and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by nihilist revelry, treachery, and tragedy is both transfixing and uncompromising. Satantango has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and inspired none other than Susan Sontag to proclaim that she would be glad to see it every year for the rest of [her] life.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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