Stntang

STNTANG – New 25th anniversary 4K restoration of Bla Tarr’s masterpiece.

#36 on the Sight & Sound / British Film Institute’s Critic’s Poll of the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made.

One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” STNTANG, based on the novel by Lszl Krasznahorkai, follows the members of a humble agricultural community living in a bleak and punishing backwater after the fall of Communism. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the community’s annual earnings for themselves, a mysterious messiah, long thought dead, returns to the village and alters the course of everyone’s lives forever.

Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gbor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed long takes, STNTANG unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Bla Tarr’s