Damnation (Karhozat)

Reduces noir to its skeletal components, so bare that even though a woman "betrays" a man you can hardly call her a femme fatale as fate never had a happy ending in store for such a pathetic, hollowed-out husk of a person, a man so empty he's eventually reduced to crawling…

Jake Cole

Existing in a state of near-permanent sorrow, the film drifts through urban spaces that briefly gesture toward comfort or intimacy, only to underscore the fragility and temporariness of such experience. The mere hint of happiness feels already tired, no longer able to…

noen

The opening image of Damnation feels like a thesis. A cable car endlessly hauling coal across a muddy wasteland, moving with mechanical persistence but arriving nowhere that matters. It’s motion without progress, labor without transformation, and time passing without…

Edwin 🦦

A supreme masterpiece of modern cinema. It distills life to its essence. The mindless repetition and tedium of our daily lives has rarely been put forth with such brutal honesty. The film is practically bursting with ideas for those who choose to explore them. And it's…

Keaton B

What I see people miss a lot when discussing Tarr's work is how funny it can be at times. The Tangó has the perpetual 'plodding along' speech in addition to Petrina's perfect snarky foil to Irimiás, and Werckmeister Harmonies would be even more bleak and harrowing without…

Jay 👽

I can't say I much appreciated my first Tarr, despite how sweeping and visually appealing numerous passages were—for the most part, I was uninterested and found it difficult to complete. Full of suffering and statements, but little enticed me between each visually arresting…

Sethsreviews

Por la manera en la que se desenvolvían las películas posteriores a Damnation, se esperaría que la transición del cine social al cine radical de Bela Tarr se siguiera dando de forma paulatina. Sin embargo, aunque no es sorpresa, de Autumn Almanac (1984) a Damnation hay un…

Sean

The near miracle is that something so compulsively watchable can be made out of a setting and society that seem so depressive and petrified

BILAL 7en

Forever aching with no end Always rising but never reaching, because all you offer is this emptiness. Born amidst it, you'll endure it, you'll ignite it.

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