Satantango

A REVIEW FOR MY #1 FAVORITE FEATURE FILM OF MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE, AND MAYBE FOREVER WITH A 99.95% PROBABILITY. ------------------------------------------------- ✟Edit for January 6th, 2026✟ To the one that made me reflect on cinema's history, who enamoured me with poetic…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

...not long enough.

EnteredTheVoid

Cinema undiluted, yet clouded; quintessential, yet corrupted; lucid, yet vague; high-minded, yet smothered in dirty shapes, postured to perfection. Designed to transport, to form a familiar, albeit foreign environment for its viewers through patient, sincere and expressive…

Eli Hayes

0:00 Okay, let's do this. I wonder how long it's gonna take me until I regret to watch the entire movie in one sitting and if I'm going to fall asleep at some point because it was already difficult to stay awake during Werckmeister Harmonies. 0:25 I always felt…

vanessa

If you aren't convinced by all the 5-star reviews, let me tell you why you should watch this 7-hour long Hungarian classic. 1: It's a one of a kind film that you may only see once upon a lifetime. 2: The seven hours will go by faster than you think. This is a slow…

Jay Sherman

About 12 minutes too long.

Justin Decloux

Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha  Letterboxd, you are incredible. You somehow managed to rangle up countless spectacular ratings, shot this right up the top 250 list, and suckered me and a bunch of other users into spending 7 whole hours watching a bunch of Hungarian villagers…

Connor4Reel

Satantango is probably the closest to a masterpiece by design of any movie that has come out more or less in the years I've been in love with movies. A couple of years before actually, but its reputation was certainly still in dispute when I started reading about it, and I…

Filipe Furtado

A travelogue of purgatory at the end of history, with characters set adrift with only the manipulations of an eerily hypnotic cult-like figure to guide them. After seven arduous hours, the punchline hits: said absentee ruler is nothing but a rat for the cops, who no longer…

Jake Cole