Toward Total Cinema: “Satantango” and the Limits of Film
Satantango (1994), the legendary seven-and-a-half-hour film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr, based on a novel by the outstanding writer László Krasznahorkai, the latest Nobel Prize winner, follows a group of villagers in a world slowly falling apart. Often seen as a landmark of “slow cinema,” it pushes time, storytelling, and perception to their limits. With […]