“A monumental cinematic achievement, Sátántangó bears testimony to the purity of the director’s artistic vision and the perfection of his craft. On a canvas that is both dark and deep, Béla Tarr paints with light, movement and the palpable passage of time to create a portrait of Hungary at a crucial historical inflection point. Sátántangó is as transfixing a film as any that has ever been.” Saibal Chatterjee
“The mud of relentless rain grounds us deep in a world that’s winding down. A last gust of weighty, old-world beauty, transmitted into our hyper-consumerist, disposable present.” Carmen Gray
“The passage of time as the main character of a film, it haunts and hypnotises us across a wasteland of human melancholy.” Michel Lipkes