Event

Man From London

Seattle Premiere
Sponsored by the University of Washington Ellison Center, the UW Center for Western European Studies and the Hungarian American Association of Washington

(Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky, France/Germany/Hungary, 2007, 35mm, 132 min)

Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's latest film features an international all-star cast, including (most recognizable to American audiences) Tilda Swinton. Based on the 1934 French language thriller L'Homme de Londres, Tarr tells the story of an impoverished railway switchman who, after witnessing and interrupting a crime, discovers a suitcase of English banknotes. In this lush noir, cinematographer Fred Kelemans camera travels painstakingly through the film, creating something that some might call slow, but will entrance others with its construction of a three-dimensional, palpable sense of space.

If you read Simenon's book last thing at night, then this might be the dream you would have after turning out the light. - The Guardian