Archive Cinema City 2011.

Macbeth

Macbeth

Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Year: 1982
Duration: 72 min

Director: Béla Tarr
Scenario: Béla Tarr

Cast: György Cserhalmi, Erzsébet Kútvölgyi, Ferenc Bencze

Programme selection: Hommage to Foreign Author - Béla Tarr

Synopsis:

Made for television, this version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth contains only two shots, of five and sixty-seven minutes respectively. For critic Jonathan Rosenbaum it marks a turning point in Tarr’s career: "Practically all the important action is staged in the foreground, with the camera following some characters and picking up others as it relentlessly tracks their movements and machinations through fog, torchlight, and dank, grottolike settings. …this video reprises elements from Tarr’s first three features while anticipating the extended, choreographed camera movements and metaphysical demonology of his second three.


 

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