Kárhozat (1987)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.6/10   

Réalisateur:

Béla Tarr

Writers:

László Krasznahorkai (writer)
Béla Tarr (writer)

Release Date:

1987 (Hungary)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy...

Plot Keywords:

Bar | Surrealism | Nudity | Magic Realism | Rain

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Beautiful but frustratingly opaque film.

Ensemble

Gábor Balogh
János Balogh
Péter Breznyik Berg
Imre Chmelik
György Cserhalmi	...	Sebestyén
Zoltán Csorba
József Dénes
Zoltán Farkas
Gáspár Ferdinándy
Jenõ Gaál
János Gémes
Károly Hunyadi
Ágnes Kamondy
Sándor Kaszab
Vali Kerekes	...	The Singer
Gyula Pauer	...	Willarsky
Zoltán Szegvári
Miklós Székely B.	...	Karrer
Hédi Temessy	...	Cloakroom Attendant
Tibor Trencsényi
János Újvári
Béla Wahrtschek
István Zsugán

Réalisé par
Béla Tarr

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
László Krasznahorkai		writer
Béla Tarr		writer

Produit par
József Marx	....	producer

Musique originale
Mihály Vig

Image
Gábor Medvigy

Montage
Ágnes Hranitzky

Direction artistique
Gyula Pauer

Création des costumes
Gyula Pauer

Maquillage
Edit Basilides	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Péter Kornai	....	production manager
Endre Sík	....	production manager
Péter Somosi	....	production leader

Assistant réalisateur
János Hollós	....	assistant director
Ágnes Hranitzky	....	assistant director
József Mezö	....	assistant director

Art Department
Sándor Kállay	....	construction manager (as Kállai Sándor)

Technicien du son
Brigitta Kajdácsi	....	dialog editor
Péter Laczkovich	....	foley synchronisation
Péter Laczkovich	....	sound post-synchronisation
Attila Madaras	....	boom operator
Tamás Márkus	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Pál Acsai	....	dolly grip
Pál Belapotoczky	....	dolly grip
Sándor Csukás	....	camera operator
Károly Ledniczky	....	chief lighting technician
Tamás Szendrei	....	focus puller
József Takács	....	focus puller

Editorial Department
István Hajdú	....	grader

Music Department
András Kósa	....	music recordist

Divers
András Bálint Kovács	....	consultant
Tibor Molnár	....	dog trainer
Ferenc Ormos	....	technician

Production Companies

• Hungarian Film Institute
• Hungarian Television (co-production)
• Mokép (co-production)

Distributors

• Artificial Eye (2001) (UK) (subtitled)
• Pierre Grise Distribution (2005) (France) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Damnation (International: English title)

Durée:

116 min | UK:120 min

Pays:

Hungary

Langue:

Hongrois

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

UK:15

Company:

Hungarian Film Institute

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the Dance/Party scene, the band and the music are clearly out of sync.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Beautiful but frustratingly opaque film.

I look in my inbox, and there sits Damnation, a film I am amazed to discover that apparently everyone has seen but me. Apparently, since Satantango was not available for rental, most people wanted a second taste of the style shown in Werckmeister Harmonies, and this was the only one available.

The film, like Werckmeister is mostly opaque, circularly musing indirectly about Big Issues with no answers, but they keep wandering around asking. The film concerns Karrer, a heartbroken man, obsessing over memories of his former lover, who grows increasingly certain that his life, now marked by solitude and despair, has no meaning. And yes, I took that from the Netflix sleeve, because I would have been unable to give any sort of coherent summary. The thing that made Satantango as brilliant as it was to me is the fact that, despite its epic length, the film isn't too hard to figure out. It's a very grounded, straightforward tale that is not dealing with any sort of high ideals, but with the basics of life, strife and death, and because it was following mere occurrences, there was not a wasted scene, it was free to meander throughout a cast of characters, and bring out the devil in their details.

Werckmeister Harmonies is absolutely breathtaking in its visuals, but was too aloof for me, and seemed to occasionally to lack focus, with several sequences going on past their usefulness, and since I had no identification with any of the characters or their high-minded ideals, I lost interest. This same problem crops up in Damnation. I can sympathize with the plight of a heartbroken lover, but nothing in the film ever penetrated my heart. It was grim in a completely roundabout, distancing way, and so I never got inside the characters of their film.

It was sho' pretty, though.

{Grade: 7.75/10 (B/B-) / #21 (of 36) of 1988}