Damnation (1988)
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- signature
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...
Our read · Damnation (1988) (1988) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Damnation
What watching it is actually like.
“You want hypnotic black and white Hungarian slow cinema about lonely longing.”
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