Sátántangó 1994

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: How can I do justice to this grungy seven-hour black comedy (1994), which in many ways impressed me more than any other film of the 90s? Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: At seven hours, Bela Tarr's 1994 Satantango is one of those unusual works of contemporary art that demand from the audience a concentrated commitment -- the luxury of time. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: This startling, apocalyptic work is sometimes over-extended, but it builds to a powerful, rhythmic climax of breakdown and withdrawal. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: The marathon Satan's Tango is a magnum opus to end all magna opera, a dark, funny, apocalyptic allegory of the Hungarian psyche that stimulates, irritates, soothes and startles with blinding strokes of genius in equal turn. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Its seven-hour runtime warns off dabblers, the one-screening-a-day bulk defies profit motive, and its protagonists -- Tarr's "poor, ugly, sad, and damned people" -- deny expectations of pleasure. It is also, at times, funny as hell. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: One of the great, largely unseeable movies of the last dozen years. Read more

Ed Halter, Village Voice: Critics have rightfully hailed Tarr as one of filmdom's criminally undersung geniuses. Read more