Tuesday, March the 17th, 2009

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Cows On A Collective Farm

Bela Tarr's Sátántangó sounds like my kind of film. Indeed, I'm astonished that it has only just come to my attention, given that it was released in 1994. Clearly I am not keeping up with things as energetically as I ought to be. Sátántangó is seven and a half hours long, in black and white, set on a collapsing collective farm in Hungary, and the opening shot, which lasts for almost eight minutes, follows a herd of Hungarian cows trudging around a collapsing collective farmyard. I have not yet seen it, but I suspect I will adore it.