In a world is as bleak and overwhelming as the one Béla Tarr envisions here, even a half-hearted pop song feels like good medicine.
Region 1 audiences will have to make do until a Criterion-like dove comes to their rescue.
The film is perhaps best epitomized by an early carnival set piece in which the camera twirls round and round on a whirligig.
You’ll want to fly out of this Nest, pronto.
Slowly, we’re informed of every betrayal and lie, of every deceit in a community that relies, ironically, upon faith.
Béla Tarr’s precise yet effortless long takes are so transcendent as to suggest God’s presence.