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February 2010

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Theatrical
Premiere

THE MAN FROM LONDON
(A Londoni férfi)

Despite its troublesome and lengthy production history, Hungarian master auteur Béla Tarr's newest film, The Man From London, is another work of elegant despair. He enters the world of film noir in this adaptation of a Belgium crime novel by Georges Simenon, which explores what happens when one night Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) really believes that his ship has come in. He is a night shift signal controller at a seaport who witnesses the disposal of a suitcase of stolen money, and decides to retrieve it. Will he be able to get away with the crime? The plot tightens as the "man from London" plays his hand and a police inspector is determined to solve this mystery with dogged pursuit. There really is not much more to the story than that, but the director's use of off-screen space, of elegant tracking shots and also his ability to use performers less for how they perform than how he chooses to shoot them, gives the film its hypnotic power. Tarr (Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies) once again works his magic at a glacial pace that devastatingly plunges the audience into bleak emotional despair, while forensically examining the human desires of greed and unrealistic hope while building an epic of poetic miserablism. With Tilda Swinton.

Directed by Béla Tarr, France/Germany/Hungary, 2007, 35mm, 135 mins. In French with English subtitles.




TimeOut London: director interview     CineEuropa: director interview     Guardian UK

Chicago Reader        

Showtimes:
Fri., Mar. 12 at 6:30 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Mar. 13-14 at 1:30. 4, 6:30 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Mar. 15-18 at 6:30 & 9 pm



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