Sátántangó

the 10 min pub drunk dance scene from Sátántangó, Bela Tarr


"In the intensity of its ritual-like pacing, Satantango is as close as cinema comes to nightmare. It concerns a rural community torn apart by a trickster messiah, but the narrative is less important than the tableaux that compose it - the opening parade of cows, the walk through a storm of detritus, a young girl's torture of her pet cat. (...) The drunk scenes, however, were as realistic as they look - shot, Tarr says, with the entire cast tanked up to the gills." (the Guardian,24-03-2001)