The acclaimed master of the long take explains to Phil Ballard why his films aren’t bleak, don’t count as cinema and are inspired by Breugel and why Tarkovsky is just “too nice” for him.
Béla Tarr views himself as an outsider?both of the trappings of any political or social structure and also of the film community. Starting in the late 1970s with low-budget films inspired by American director John Cassavettes in their use of gritty, urban realism, his films strived to show a contemporary reality that was absent from other works of the period.
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