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Die Rebellion (The Rebellion). 1993. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy, Haneke’s haunting adaptation of Joseph Roth’s expressionistic 1924 novel is an homage to the great Weimar cinema of G. W. Pabst and F. W. Murnau. In a heartbreaking performance, Branko Samarovski plays Andreas Pum, a soldier who loses his leg during the Great War and becomes an organ-grinder to earn a few coins a day. To this loyal citizen of the State, the veterans and firebrands who march in protest against society’s neglect are lazy, insubordinate “heathens.” But when an ugly tram incident condemns Pum to a life of penury and loneliness, his soul is awakened to the bitter waste of a life spent in duty to God and Empire. In German; 90 min

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A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

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“It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A heavy going realistic slice of life domestic drama that is filmed in black and white. It’s a followup to Béla Tarr’s other domestic strife tales Family Nest and The Outsider. This one keys in on marital strife. It’s about a struggling young couple’s confrontations and their own inability to freely communicate with each other. Tarr was evidently influenced by the works of Ranier Werner Fassbinder and John Cassavettes.

The film opens with factory worker hubby packing his bags and abruptly walking out on his hysterical wife. The young couple have two small children. In the next scene, the wife recalls events in their marriage such as a squabble celebrating their wedding anniversary over her complaints she does the housekeeping and takes care of the children and he offers no help and doesn’t communicate with her, and another spat at an outing to the pool when wifey is ticked he left her alone for over an hour to talk with his friend. At a dance, hubby dances with another woman and wifey jealously stares into space as the song played is “I’ve got a black baby.” The only time hubby is seen talking with his older school-aged son he gets mixed up trying to explain the difference between capitalism, socialism and communism. Hubby is offered a tour of service in Romania for two years to work at the same control room position he has and with double pay, but wifey refuses to be left alone. The film then returns to the opening scene and we now understand why hubby is leaving so abruptly. With hubby returning from abroad, we next see the couple purchasing a new washing machine in celebration of their reconciliation but returning from the store after the purchase looking as depressed as they usually do.

The unrelenting confrontations between a nagging wife and a distant hubby, where the filmmaker takes no sides in showing this downbeat marriage, gives one a picture of how the ordinary Budapest resident of the 1970s and early 1980s lived under communism. It’s not a pretty or entertaining picture, but it does scratch at the surface of things to show that not everything that is deep has to be complex. It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.

The.Prefab.People.1982.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt had written a film script entitled Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). Not happy with the ending he had devised for the first version, he decided to write a new one. This time he chose the novel format, completely changing the epilogue and the morals implied in the story as he had originally conceived it. In the first version, the events are resolved with sort of a conventional closure, with the main character proved successful, not leaving much space for any further reflection; in the subsequent novel (Das Versprechen, also known as The Pledge in English) the author exploits the story to explore the mechanics of detective fiction and the metaphysics of evil. In Das Versprechen, Dürrenmatt not only changed the ending of the story, he also moved the point of view on the events to another character.

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Introducing Szürkület to the audience present at its first screening at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, Hungarian filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf compared the visual experience to the listening of a whale song. As a matter of fact, Fehér’s mesmeric feature works a lot like white noise. The hypnotic use of the all-pervasive sound and the aged-looking black and white cinematography unquestionably reinforce this impression.

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György Fehér based his Szürkület on the film script by Dürrenmatt, not on the novel. Although Fehér followed the story quite faithfully, the impression is that of a total rewriting. Following the flowing of the events in the film without having read previously Dürrenmatt’s story is very difficult: Fehér didn’t choose to draw attention to the plot’s development at all. What the spectators are invited to examine is not a crime story, as they would be led to believe. The story is simply a frame or, rather, a leitmotif bringing together the various sequences. What Fehér composed is a visual suite, an entrancing trip through the dusky territories of the human soul.

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Every scene has the quality of a vision. Suspensions and pauses set the pace of every sequence, while the camera pans and halts, peeps through interstices, doors and windows, like possessed by the eye of a dreamer. After a while the spectator’s sight adjusts to rules of stimulation offered by the film, forgetting about expectations normally triggered by laws of causality. The eye of the camera silently explores the actors’ faces like they were landscapes and landscapes like they were actors. Lights, shadows, lines, shapes, faces, broken words: all are like elements in somebody’s dream the viewer is given the opportunity to observe from an uncommon position.

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It’s impossible to do justice to such an intense work of cinematic art in just a few lines, it’s impossible to describe the ineffable sensations it awakens. Watching Szürkület feels indeed like being inside somebody else’s dream. –

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A former inspector on his last day with the department is called in to investigate a child murder. A suspect soon confesses to the crime, but knowing that the confession came only after the man was browbeaten in a relentless, 20-hour interrogation, the inspector’s keen police instincts tell him that the man is not the real murderer and that there is a serial killer at work, with the girl’s murder being related to other child murders that occurred in the area. However, he is alone in his assessment and the police close the case.

Having made a solemn promise to the parents of the murdered girl that he would find the culprit, the inspector abandons his previous plans and continues investigating the case as a private citizen. He is warned by a psychiatrist that the murderer he seeks might not exist, and thus he might drive himself mad with his obsession in finding the man…

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If you like to see what movies are really about (i.e. moving)you should see szurkulet. This highly original and intense film is an exercise in style ‘pur sang’. The story is loosely based on ‘es geschah am hellichten Tag’ by Friedrich Durrenmatt. But how the story is told is the most important part here. In a shadowish black and white twilight we see the story unfold in very (and I mean very) slow moving breathtaking camera movements over different scenes. This means that the whole movie exists out of less then 50 shots, without making unnessecary cuts. Orson Wells eat your heart out. Every scene tells the viewer another part of the puzzle and so the story gets you more and more in its gripping way of telling the story. For movie fans this is a must-see because this movie is the only movie I’ve seen which has stripped a picture to its bare essentials.

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Seeing this film was one of the most memorable cinematic experiences I have ever had. The extremely slow movement of the camera across stunning black and gray scenes was mesmerizing. Over time, it induced a kind of trance-like state that intensified the mysterious and sinister atmosphere of the film. The minimalist script was well served by the reflective and melancholy main character, a detective attempting to solve a tragic crime in a remote and desolate rural area. The overall effect was much like a strange, haunting dream with many emotional layers. I loved the film and hope I can see it again on a big screen one day!

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I saw this movie a long time ago, just after it’s release. Don’t remember much of the story anymore, except that it’s about a detective who’s looking for a child-kidnapper.

What I do remember is the beautiful camera-work and the very slow shots. Never seen anything like this. The very slow camera-movements and the extreme length of the shots make this film hypnotic. The landscapes are breathtaking.

A remarkable film…

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