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the cinema of BLA TARR

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the cinema of BLA TARR

the circle closes

Andrs Blint Kovcs

WALLFLOWER PRESS LONDON & NEW YORK

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CONTENTS

As a matter of fact the people to whom I am deeply thankful for their helping me writing this book are the same people this book is about: Bla Tarr, gnes Hranitzky, Lszl Krasznahorkai, Mihly Vg, Gyula Pauer and Gbor Medvigy. Over the past twenty years or so they have shared every detail of their work related to the films of Bla Tarr that was of interest to me. Some of them I hadnt seen for many years, but when we met they were as open and helpful as when we were in close collaboration.

It is needless to say that my close friendship with Bla Tarr and gnes Hranitzky gave me a perspective on their work I wouldnt have otherwise. Their friendship and support has been an invaluable contribution to this book. However, never did they give any indication as to what they expected me to say or to write. They always respected my opinion, even when we disagreed.

Tarr and Hranitzky were the only ones I showed the manuscript of this book. They both read it and meticulously corrected factual errors and commented on my statements. Sometimes disapprovingly. There was an issue, however, they could not get past. We argued a lot over it, and finally they said, This is your book, write what you think. Out of respect for their point of view, I summarised this controversy in the last chapter.

I have always felt that I owed this book to them, and I can only hope that it will be worthy of their huge work.

This book is a critical analysis of the work of Hungarys most prominent and internationally best-known film director, Bla Tarr. Anyone who is acquainted with his work will see immediately the consistency with which Tarr develops his themes, characters and style throughout his career. His films are like variations on a number of basic themes and formal motifs where the themes themselves become intertwined, or absorbed, in one another. We can best approach his films by learning how they relate to each other, how they vary these elements. As far as I can see, Tarrs films are the result of a conscious and sustained development of a style in order to make it more and more expressive of a specific vision Tarr has about the people and the world around him. This form changes only slightly from film to film as the stories change, but since the stories are based on the same elements, the form and the style basically modify the same motifs. In this process it is possible to observe a filmmaker trying out different solutions, experimenting with aesthetic effects so as to make his statement more transparent. My main approach will thus be to show an internal evolution detectable in the films stylistic and thematic systems through which Tarr has arrived at a degree of expressivity, one which seems impossible to increase within this system.

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