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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
86 Views


- waves of danger tossed

Help him by Thy strong hand

He on grief's sea may be lost

But no freedom's flowers bloom

- From the spilt...

- From the spilt blood of the dead.

And the tears of slavery burn

Which eyes of orphans shed.

- Do it again from the beginning.

- 'Neath the fort, a ruin now,

'Neath the fort, a ruin now,

Joy and pleasure erst were found,

There are only groans

and sighs

instead...

Freedom's flowers

do not bloom

From the spilt blood

of the dead...

...of the dead,

And the tears of slavery burn

- the eyes of orphans shed.

- Say it!

What are you doing?

- What are you doing, hey.

- Going.

What are you doing?

- Where are you going?

- Away.

What do you mean away?

That, away.

What's away, for food?

Yes.

What do you mean away?

Listen, what's away.

Robi, what are you doing?

Don't you understand?

Wait a bit!

I'll put him down.

Robi, what are you doing?

What do you think

you're doing?

- What's away, listen!

- Leave it out.

- What's away? What's going?

- Let me go.

Where to?

Where to, what's away?

Leve me be.

What do you think away is?

Away for good?

Not for bad.

God, I can't take this, Robi!

Don't do this.

I don't see why away.

What's away,

you can't do this.

You can't do this, away!

Say something, Robi!

Not this...

What is it, tell me,

you're just fed up?

You're fed up?

And you just say, I'm going?

- Bye.

- What's bye?

Where do I go, tell me,

what's going to happen to me?

What do you imagine, tell me?

Where do you imagine I'll go to?

If I've had enough

tell me where do I go to?

Don't you see, Robi

... are you crazy?

You think you can just say

that you're off?

No... no... no!

I'm begging you,

I'm begging,

I can't take it!

I'm afraid

he may feel better alone.

No one to nag him.

Go here, go there,

do what he wants,

have a drink,

don't have a drink.

He has a few

fixed points in his life,

things that I was

always on at him,

football, pools, beer.

Now he can do them...

Problem is, he doesn't have

any big needs so he's fine,

really fine the way he is.

He goes into a flat,

he lies down,

watches TV, reads the paper...

and he's fine.

The only thing that might

bring him back

is the children obviously.

But it wouldn't be the same.

But if it's only because of them.

I know it won't be the same.

I don't know what'll happen,

what I have to do,

what to do,

how to do it.

Because

all the time

there was tension and trouble

between us for years now...

what we should

focus on is

that after years of strife, whether

we could get together again.

Then we'd have to try.

Whether with someone new

or each of us alone.

That I don't know...

I don't want to,

that I can't even imagine.

It would drive me crazy

to believe he might think

of living with someone else.

Perhaps it'd be best if

he couldn't imagine living

without the kids.

These are the automatic ones.

Yes please.

We'd like to buy

a washing machine...

- A traditional one? Or...

- What does traditional mean?

- Automatic or semi-automatic?

- Well, an automatic.

- How many kinds are there?

- Well there's the traditional,

this is the semi-automatic

for 12.900 there's the

fully automatic,

that's got 18 programmes,

it all depends on how much

washing you want to put in.

- Isn't this a washer?

- Yes it is.

This is a Minimat 65

and this is a Midimat 85,

the difference is

one is 12.900, the other 12.800,

this one's space saving,

can take more washing.

It's bigger inside.

Yes, it's bigger

it'll take more clothes.

I can show you a brochure.

Here you are.

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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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