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Great idea. Poorly executed. Screenplay dominated by factual biography. Minimal external, contextual references. Few glimpses on internal struggles, doubts, nuances of choice. No cinematography. This could have been a good reality show. Belongs there. No reason for 2.4 hours. There is no substance outside the historical sequence of events. Ver similar transitions to Slacker and Waking Life: main character posses a pervasive equidistant, phlegmatic stance. Hard to digest some of the clichés when describing political preferences, social classes. Some moments of embarrassment also when characters seem replicas of tabloids.

If you watched this movie, than you don't need to read this review. I have discovered Tarr with Satantango and since then I have been watching everything that is available on DVDs. This one is skin-close to East Europeans (like me). It is now known that following 1945 this part of the World was programmed to live in poverty, promiscuity and suffocation. Please refer to KGB documents on implementing poor public transportation, crowding people in apartments, denying any individualization, making lives be bared and not lived. Tarr, by means unknown to me, divulges this and also brings the camera so close to skin making any escapism impossible. Suffocated in the family nest. It's the story of all of us living that nightmare. I am 50. My father's inebriated breath still lingers on my pillow.