Arbelos: 4K Restoration of Satantango Detailed for Blu-ray
HomeArbelos: 4K Restoration of Satantango Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted November 5, 2020 06:51 PM by Webmaster
Arbelos has dated and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Bela Tarr's film Satantango (1994), starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, and Mihály Vig. The two-disc set will be available for purchase on January 12.
Label description: One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of "slow cinema," Sátántangó, based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone's lives forever.
Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Tarr's vision, aided by longtime partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by boozy dance parties, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. Sátántangó has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and inspired none other than Susan Sontag to proclaim that she would be "glad to see it every year for the rest of [her] life".
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Label description: One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of "slow cinema," Sátántangó, based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone's lives forever.
Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Tarr's vision, aided by longtime partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by boozy dance parties, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. Sátántangó has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and inspired none other than Susan Sontag to proclaim that she would be "glad to see it every year for the rest of [her] life".
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM from the original 35mm camera negative by Arbelos in collaboration with The Hungarian Filmlab.
- NEW video interview "A Sense of Rhythm" with composer and actor Mihály Víg.
- NEW video essay "Orders of Time in Motion" by Kevin B. Lee.
- 2007 archival interview with director Béla Tarr.
- U.S. Theatrical Trailer.
- New English subtitle translation.
- New essay "How to Watch Sátántangó" by Janice Lee and Jared Woodland.
- REGION-A "LOCKED"
