Béla Tarr’s massive, seven+ hour masterpiece immerses viewers in a novelistic tableau of life in a small Hungarian town as communism falls. Tarr’s astonishing visual compositions add a level of transcendence to the film, now restored from its original elements.

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“At seven hours, SÁTÁNTANGÓ is one of those unusual works of contemporary art that demand from the audience a concentrated commitment — the luxury of time.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“The marathon SÁTÁNTANGÓ is a magnum opus to end all magna opera, a dark, funny, apocalyptic allegory of the Hungarian psyche that stimulates, irritates, soothes and startles with blinding strokes of genius in equal turn.” – Derek Elley, Variety