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The Man from London

A Londoni férfi (The Man from London)

2007

Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

Erika Bók, Tilda Swinton, János Derzsi, Ági Szirtes ...

7.1

1,664

Drama Maloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of life around him and his all but complete loneliness. When he becomes a witness to a murder, his life takes a sudden turn. He comes face to face with issues of morality, sin, punishment, the line between innocence and complicity in a crime, and this state of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It’s a film about looking and listening, with a suggestive minimalist soundtrack and ravishing black-and-white cinematography by German filmmaker Fred Kelemen. Tarr’s slow-as-molasses camera movements and endlessly protracted takes generate a trancelike sense of wonder, giving us time to think and always implying far more than they show."	POS
United States	Nathan Lee The New York Times	"[An] outrageously stylized, conceptually demanding film (...) Tarr’s chilly tour de force is to be understood as art all right"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] grows agonizingly tedious and repetitive very quickly (...) Made with clear indifference to the viewer (...) 'London' has no possibility of connecting with any but the most tolerant art house habitue."	NEG
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Despite a coherent, economical plotline, this film’s sheer slowness may prove too punishing for many viewers"	NEU
United States	David Fear Time Out	"There’s no connection between the exquisite form and the crime-fiction content (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Unsettling, sometimes absurd, sometimes stunning (...) It really is very strange, and yet in concentrating on Maloin's misery, Tarr has hit on something very pertinent (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"Disappointing"	NEG

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