The Prefab People Page #5

Synopsis: A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Béla Tarr
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
1982
102 min
85 Views


Good?

just let me be in love tonight

Hold tight.

just let me be in love tonight

- With you.

- That's right.

What a fine fellow!

I've got a black baby

Black her hair and skin

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes

her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

Fiery red her lips when

she Charlestons

My own black baby.

I've got a black baby

Her eyes as black as coal

Black her hair and skin

and she bathes

her towels so happy

Black pearls on her neck

Black is her body

Fiery red lips when

she Charlestons

My own black baby

On the red day of Whitsun

I prayed and prayed

On the red day of Whitsun

For you to come back

The meadow was full

the wild flowers blooming.

I was waiting for you

Whitsun roses in my hand.

All my wait was in vain

Autumn has arrived

Whitsun roses are long

Faded and gone.

My smiling love

No more I'll call you

in Winter cold and ice

only frost-flowers open.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight...

my crazy heart...

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight

I'm with you.

Hold me gentle, sweetheart

rock me tight...

my crazy heart

rock away...

Yellow leaves from the tree

Fall winds carry away.

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

Fall winds carry away

And every evening I wait

my heart burning for you.

There I stood for a while

Wounded, crippled,

Not a word she said

in silence she fled

my heart burning for you.

There's a chance to go and

work abroad for two years.

I'm the one in the control

room they thought of.

It's the same work, they say

just a bit more developed...

...the construction.

In Romania.

I'd get paid here and there

for the two years. In Lei there.

- Why do you get paid twice?

- The law says if you work abroad...

your family gets paid here

so you can get that...

And you go alone?

The way it is...

I go myself,

myself, sure.

It's not like it's ten years,

just two years I'll be there.

It's the same, I get up...

Two years. We're not

together for two years?

I'd come home

on my holidays...

Holidays, two weeks?

No, I think I'd get three

four weeks on this,

I didn't ask, and then

it can be worked out.

I... I don't have to say yes

right away.

I said I had to talk to you.

I think it'd be great.

It looks like, it looks like,

we'd have a car inside a year...

- What's in it for me...

- It's great, we can move.

It's nothing to me

to have a car in a year

or in six years

and be alone for two years.

- I think we have to make a move...

- Don't you like it here?

It'd be good for my career,

because they thought of me,

so, it's something serious.

I mean there's 22 of us

and I'm the one they asked.

- Not to see the kids?

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Béla Tarr

Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian film director. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. Debuting with the film Family Nest (1979), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films changed. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic. Almanac of Fall (1984), his only color film, follows the inhabitants of a run-down apartment as they struggle to live together while sharing their hostilities. The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become known for internationally. Satan's Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former sometimes appears in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made, and the latter received wide acclaim from critics. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London, which opened to moderately positive reviews. Frequent collaborators with Tarr include novelist László Krasznahorkai, film composer Mihály Víg, cinematographer Fred Kelemen, actress Erika Bók, and Tarr's wife Ágnes Hranitzky, who is sometimes credited as a co-director of his last three works. After the release of his film The Turin Horse (2011), which made many year-end "best-of" critics' lists, Tarr announced his definitive retirement from feature-length film direction. In February 2013 he started a film school in Sarajevo, known as film.factory, leaving in 2016. He is slated to premiere two short films in a 2017 Amsterdam exhibition. more…

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