Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 211: Fri Aug 2

The Outsider (Tarr, 1981): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm


This film also screens on August 23rd and is part of the Bela Tarr season at BFI Southbank.

Chicago Reader review:
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr’s second feature (1981), 146 minutes long, is a portrait of a restless young male nurse and factory worker (Andras Szabo) who plays the violin and seems unhappy with both the woman who bore him a child and the woman he subsequently marries. The key filmmaking influence here is John Cassavetes, and much of the film is shot in close-ups, making for a stark oppressiveness.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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