The Prefab People Page #2

Synopsis: A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Béla Tarr
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
1982
102 min
85 Views


will be communism when...

in socialism everyone gets...

or in socialism

your needs...

No, in socialism you get

as much as what you work,

with communism, everyone

will get everything they need.

But here we're talking

about capitalism now.

Because at the present...

and it doesn't hurt

to know this,

because capitalism and

socialism exist together now,

and we are more developed,

but economically...

sometimes they are stronger.

You'll learn all this in school

but it doesn't hurt to know

a bit in advance.

I go in alone?

Are you crazy?

Just to say hello.

Give me the whatsit at least.

Let me show you

something strange.

So many chair,

hardly any customers.

I'll show you a strange

natural phenomen.

Do you think

it's a cloud or smoke?

- Well, both. - No.

Smoke goes into cloud.

It's smoke.

Just smoke?

That's why I'm leaving

the place, it's boring.

- You want to leave?

- No, not really, it's just...

When you can't tell smoke

from a cloud,

well then?

- Can you?

- Have you any beer?

There is,

have to look for it.

Why don't you have wine?

There's something in it.

Can't be a fly. Wind's blown

all the flies away.

- It's only soot! Cheers!

- Whole place was full of flies.

Imagine,

- I had to pay a fine. - Why?

- Because of the flies.

And the salt cellar

wasn't full and

since then there's no flies.

And there's a constant wind.

Now, there's a customer,

coming here.

I'll have to lay a table...

what's the time?

Doesn,t matter,

the firemen are coming.

Imagine, they came before

and ordered,

I couldn't hear them,

the wind from there and I'm here.

- It's a special job.

- What?

- What I'm doing.

- You can't tell me?

- Electric safety operative.

- Serious? No joking?

Serious, you walk around

with your little thing

a whatsit,

and stick it into the wall.

- And it's only one day a week.

- Can't be.

It's true.

It's a responsible job...

But you get 15 thousand here.

Yes, but then you have

to be here every day.

- Are you really going?

- Sure.

I'll be able to go off

into the woods, anything...

You're putting me on...

No, I thought the river

is lovely here,

but you can't watch it

all the time. Right?

True.

Hello.

Gbor?

Go and find him.

- What's wrong?

- What's wrong!

You said you'd just say hell,

is that a hello?

Leaving me with two kids

for an hour and a half?

- An hour and a...

- Who do you think you are?

you're crazy,

for an hour and a half...

I wasn't a minute over 20.

I had a couple of words

with Gyuri.

I don't know where's the other,

I can't be everywher!

Everyone's staring.

Keep it quiet.

Sure, what if I'd left you

sitting here like this. See?

Shut up.

Is this

going to the pool?!

No, it's not like,

so to say, whatever...

more that me and Robi,

my husband,

we haven't gone dancing

for a long time.

He can't really read my mood,

see what I mean?

I can have the desire,

like when we go to a place

where there' dancing

then I really have the need.

I'll never forget when I

was a girl,

it was crazy how many places

I went to, just to dance.

Open air places, school hops,

any chance,

off I went.

I even dance in a competition,

there were all kind of dances,

I came first in the waltz.

There was the twist,

there was those...

when a couple, who could really

do it for a really long time...

the we all stopped,

made a circle and just clapped...

And I could do it for hours,

for hours...

And everyone stopped and

watched and I enjoyed it...

What was the other one?

You had to hold, the jump?

- The jump?

- Not the twist...

And there was the madison...

it won't come...

and in it you had...

No... Letkiss! Letkiss!

That was it!

I remember.

That was a killer,

we did it until our feet...

I only noticed when I'd get

home in the early hours...

take off my sandals, and sweet

Jesus, what my feet looked like!

With the music playing,

we felt nothing, see...

- Fallen arches, what...

- When I could barely wash.

Your foot's swollen...

your arches fallen.

But now we're not so keen

anymore.

Our time's gone.

Where did you go in summer?

In summer?

Go anywhere? In summer?

Nowhere this time.

- You stayed at home?

- The kid's so small, well...

They tie you down then.

Did you go anywhere?

- A lovely trip.

- Where? A long one?

Spain, Switzerland,

West Germany, Austria...

All the way to

Switzerland too?

Switzerland, but we ended up

in Spain, wonderfull.

We went to Bulgaria once

with the kids. Our daughter

was 3, our son 6

but it was wonderful.

The children enjoyed it

so much, we walked,

slept in a tent,

it was perfect.

That's why I'm telling you,

you can do it later,

because the kids can

manage.

- The can.

- True, if you can, they can.

I could manage them, I had

no problem with the kids.

Splashing naked in the sea...

If you get good weather,

the seaside is the place.

But not if you want to see

museums or towns...

When kids are small, then

you have to arrange it

to have lots of free time.

We went to see Rila monastery,

teh kids enjoyed it too.

That little cottage

is still so nice,

It means one thing to me

the house and my young days

Once more we'll go

to look for memories

to revive a summer

and a young couple

That little cottage

is still so nice,

it means one thing to me

the house and my young days

The next song,

if you don't mind,

just this time, I'd like

to sing to a real man,

if there is one among you.

What's the matter?

I don't want a pianist,

I want a man.

What?

I can hear voices

but I don't see a man.

I'll come and have a look.

Here I come, boys!

May I?

Ladies, it looks as if

standing before you here

a real man.

We'll soon see

if you deserve that title.

Now would you hold

my hand tight please?

Try and do what I do.

I promise it won't hurt.

All you have to do first is bend

your knees, I'll show you how.

Once, two. That's it.

Let me be in love tonight

Your love and kisses

can't be to much

Moonrays smile on us

Silver light in front of us

Let me be in love tonight

Let me be tonight the one

Who whispers your name

They think we are friends

for me that's not enough,

just let me be in love tonight

Here comes the hard bit...

We've been together long

two people make a pair

Isn't that good!

Two of us, where you are

there's a house for us

Now don't hesitate

Let me be tonight the one

who whispers your name

They think we are friends

for me that's not enough,

just let me be in love tonight

Good?

just let me be in love tonight

Hold tight.

just let me be in love tonight

- With you.

- That's right.

What a fine fellow!

I've got a black baby

Black her hair and skin

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes

her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

Fiery red her lips when

she Charlestons

My own black baby.

I've got a black baby

Her eyes as black as coal

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes

her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

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Béla Tarr

Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian film director. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. Debuting with the film Family Nest (1979), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films changed. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic. Almanac of Fall (1984), his only color film, follows the inhabitants of a run-down apartment as they struggle to live together while sharing their hostilities. The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become known for internationally. Satan's Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former sometimes appears in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made, and the latter received wide acclaim from critics. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London, which opened to moderately positive reviews. Frequent collaborators with Tarr include novelist László Krasznahorkai, film composer Mihály Víg, cinematographer Fred Kelemen, actress Erika Bók, and Tarr's wife Ágnes Hranitzky, who is sometimes credited as a co-director of his last three works. After the release of his film The Turin Horse (2011), which made many year-end "best-of" critics' lists, Tarr announced his definitive retirement from feature-length film direction. In February 2013 he started a film school in Sarajevo, known as film.factory, leaving in 2016. He is slated to premiere two short films in a 2017 Amsterdam exhibition. more…

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