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» Artificial Eye 2008

Friday, 12 December 2008 From Friday | 12 December

Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Centre, London WC1

Artificial Eye 2008

from the director of Werckmeister Harmonies and Sátántangó

The man from London (A londoni férfi)
A film by Béla Tarr

The extraordinary Hungarian director Béla Tarr is one of the world’s most original and acclaimed contemporary filmmakers. In a body of work concerned with explorations of the human condition, he has created an uncompromising, innovative and utterly engrossing cinematic world. Since the release of Werckmeister Harmonies in 2000, Béla Tarr has spent the last four years preparing his new film, The Man from London. Based on the novel L'homme de Londres by Belgian writer Georges Simenon and adapted by Béla Tarr and his regular scriptwriter László Krasznahorkai. Maloin (Tilda Swinton) 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 in this state it leads him to the question of the meaning and worth of existence. The film is about desire, man’s indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness, about illusions never to be realised – about things that give all of us energy to continue living, to go to sleep and get up day after day… Maloin’s story is ours – all of those who doubt and are able to question our humdrum existence.

Starring
Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Erika Bók János Derzsi, Ági Szirtes & István Lénárt

An Artificial Eye Release www.artificial-eye.com

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