Satantango
Drama
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
VIBE
A crushing, existential descent into rural Hungarian despair. This film feels like a long, cold winter, where hope is a forgotten memory and every frame is steeped in poverty and the slow decay of the human spirit.
bleakmelancholicoppressivecontemplativedread-soakedslow-burnarthouseremodernistblack and whitecontemplative cinemadespaircommunityexploitationlossfutility
farmepiccountrysidebased on novel or bookcatrainhungarylonelinessart housepovertyblack and whitewriteralcoholicmental illnessremodernistnonlinear timelinemultiple perspectivescontemplative cinema
