In the film, Tarr ?depicts the unrelenting grind of domestic life? for the main characters, a horse-cart driver and his daughter, said Nicolas Rapold, writing for The New York Times.
?When the bearded patriarch struggles out of bed every morning to be dressed by his dutiful offspring, you feel his fatigue.?
Speaking before a screening of the film in New York last autumn, Tarr used Milan Kundera?s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being as a starting point to describe the film.
?Do you remember, Milan Kundera wrote this book about the lightness of the being? We just wanted to show you the heaviness of the being,? Tarr told the paper.
?You are doing always the same thing every day, but every day is a little bit different, and the life is just getting weaker and weaker, and, by the end, disappears?.This is what this ?movie shows you.?
The paper noted that other well known filmmakers have made premature announcements of the end of their directing careers, but it acknowledged that Tarr is staying busy. He was recently elected president of the Hungarian Filmmakers Association and plans to continue producing at his Budapest film company, T. T. Filmműhely, while starting up a film school in Split, Croatia.
?The jam-packed schedule suggests that Mr. Tarr is serious about staying away from directing films,? Rapold said.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / www.nytimes.com / Photo: MTI
