Bela Tarr

Director

Bela Tarr was born in Pécs, Baranya County, Hungary on July 21st, 1955 and is the Director. At the age of 68, Bela Tarr biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 21, 1955
Nationality
Hungary
Place of Birth
Pécs, Baranya County, Hungary
Age
68 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Bela Tarr Life

Béla Tarr (born July 1955) is a Hungarian filmmaker.

The bulk of his body of work consists of art films with philosophical motifs and long takes. Tarr's debutal with the film Family Nest (1977) began his directorial career with a short period of what he describes as "social cinema" aimed at conveying everyday life, often in the style of cinema vérité.

The cinematic style and thematic elements of his films have shifted over the past decade.

Tarr has been described as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his books are often cynical, and they have tumultuous interactions with one another in ways that critics have found to be sarcastic.

Almanac of Fall (1984), his first color film, follows the residents of a run-down apartment as they try to live together while still sharing their hostilities.

The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become well known for internationally.

Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) maintained their bleak and desolate interpretations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former actor appears in scholarly polls of the best films ever made, and critics continue to praise him.

Tarr's film The Man from London, which attracted moderately positive feedback, would later compete in the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Novelist László Krasznahorkai, film director Mihály Vg, film editor Fred Kelemen, actor Erika Bók, and Tarr's wife gnes Hranitzky, who is often described as a co-director of his last three films, are among Tarr's frequent collaborators.

Tarr resigned from feature-length film direction following the introduction of his film The Turin Horse (2011), which appeared on several year-end "best-of" critics' lists.

He founded film.factory in Sarajevo in February 2013 and then stopped in 2016.

In a 2017 Amsterdam exhibition, he has premiered two short films.

Life

Tarr was born in Pécs, but grew up in Budapest. His parents worked in both theatre and film: his father created scenery, while his mother served as a compass in a theatre for more than 50 years. Tarr was invited by his mother to a casting session, and he eventually took the role of the protagonist's son in a television drama version of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Other than a small role in Miklós Jancsó's film Szörnyegnevy (Season of Monsters, 1986) and a handful of one-glimpse cameos (such as in Gábor Bódy's Dog's Night Song [1983]), Tarr has had no other acting roles. He began attempting to become a scholar by his own account, and film-making became a passion. However, the Hungarian government would not allow Tarr to attend university because he had no desire to pursue filmmaking after making his 8mm short films.

Early work

Tarr began to dream about filmmaking at the age of 16, making amateur films and then working as a caretaker at a national House of Culture and Recreation. The bulk of his amateur works were documentaries, mainly about the lives of workers or homeless people in urban Hungary. (Béla Balázs Studio) attracted his attention thanks to his amateur work, which was named in honor of the Hungarian cinema theorist who helped finance Tarr's 1977 film debut, Családi tzfészek, which Tarr started filming at age 22. In six days, he shot the film with no budget and using non-professional actors. The film was faithful to the "Budest school" or "documentarist" style that was popular in Béla Balázs Studios at the time, with complete social realism on screen. Critics found the film to suggest John Cassavetes' fame, though Tarr denied ever seeing any of Cassavetes' films before shooting Családi tzfészek, which was first released in 1979.

Tarr began his studies at the Hungarian School of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts after completing "Családi tzfészek." The 1980 film Szabadgyalog (The Outsider) and the following year's Panelkapcsolat (The Prefab People) maintained in much the same vein, with little changes in style. The latter was Tarr's first film to feature professional actors in leading roles. His career began to shift drastically after a 1982 television version of Macbeth. The film is made up of only two shots: the first shot (before the main title) is five minutes long, while the second is 67 minutes long.

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