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Magical History Tour: High Contrast – Variations on chiaroscuro in black-and-white cinema

A londoni férfi

The Man From London
Film still from MAN FROM LONDON: Night-time shot with strong light contrasts. A few people can be seen between a landing stage and the railroad tracks.

Fri 13.09.
17:00

  • Director

    Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

  • Hungary, France, Germany / 2007
    132 min. / 35 mm / Original version with German subtitles

  • with

    Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton

  • Original language

    French, English

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

Slowly, places are composed of surfaces, reflections, shadows and cones of light: a ship's deck, the wall of a quay, a train, a lighthouse. The cool, sharply contrasted no-man's-land, observed with utmost precision, is the setting for Tarr's Simenon adaptation: a noir-esque "thriller" about the switchman Maloin, who observes a murder from a lighthouse. A suitcase of money that has fallen into the water offers a momentary escape from his meagre existence. Immersed in boundless blackness, A LONDONI FÉRFI offers an inside view of a frozen life. (mg)

Further Dates

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media