This startling, apocalyptic work is sometimes over-extended, but it builds to a powerful, rhythmic climax of breakdown and withdrawal.
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02/09/06
Satantango (1994)
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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 11 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 7 hrs 15 mins
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. Based on Laszlo Karsznahorkai's novel and filmed over a period of two years, the... [More]
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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
Critics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom's criminally undersung geniuses.
10/05/07
In Sátántangó, life is beautiful and grotesque by turns, and never less than mesmerizing.
02/01/07
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
Sátántangó is structured in a repetitive chronology that apes the rhythmic tally of the tango.
10/10/03
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
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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
Just as the film eschews typical filmic moralizing and simplification, it also casts off the typical language of film.
04/15/02
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