After watching a music video of Arvo Pärt’s Salve Regina set to clips from the 1994 Hungarian movie called [i]Sátántangó,[/i] I decided that dragging my husband through the seven hour experience would be a great idea, although daunting. I made it through [i]Gone with the Wind,[/i] so what was another couple hours?

Unfortunately, neither of us have the time to sit through an entire screening and are watching it in increments as time allows. So, we watxchwd it in increments. 

The movie is phenomenal. I am an avid foreign film watcher. My husband is not. We were both thoroughly engrossed in the movie. 

Critiques have dubbed the movie “The Mount Everest for cinephiles” and a “microscopic view of the human condition.” I am not a movie-buff by any means, but I can’t help to full heartedly agree that the directing captures a war-torn Hungary marvelously 

It’s slow paced. It’s purposefully shot in black-and-white. Every shot is beautiful and natural and perfectly imperfect. The method acting is grotesquely interesting. And, the suspense is enchanting.

I really want to read the novel, now.

A link to the YT video can be found below.

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