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The Outsider (1981 film)

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'The Outsider' is a 1981 Hungarian drama film directed by Bla Tarr, starring Andrs Szab and Jolan Fodor. It tells the story of a talented but irresponsible violinist who ruins his marriage with his drinking and antisocial behaviour.

Cast



* Andrs Szab as Andrs

* Jolan Fodor as Kata

* Imre Donko as Csotesz

* Istvan Bolla as Balzs

* Ferenc Jnossy as Festmvsz

* Imre Vass as Egy munks

Themes



Bla Tarr has described the film as a reaction against the political situation and the conventions of Hungarian cinema: "There were a lot of shit things in the cinema, a lot of lies. We weren't knocking at the door, we just beat it down. We were coming with some fresh, new, true, real things. We just wanted to show the reality - anti-movies."

Reception



Adam Bingham wrote in the 2011 book 'Directory of World Cinema': "Before he became a celebrated cinematic poet of the existentiala director apt to invoke all manner of cosmic portents in detailing the downtrodden lives of alienated men in purgatory and damnationBla Tarr made his name in Hungary for a series of thematically-linked, discursively-inflected dramas of domestic conflict and antagonism that observe at close quarters the progressive disintegration of a family unit. 'Szabadgyalog'/'The Outsider' is arguably the most significant of the three; certainly it is the most prescient in that its protagonist (a disaffected and alienated musician named Andrs, played by Andrs Szab, who also composed the music for the film) looks forward to the later condemned and tormented souls of 'Krhozat'/'Damnation' (1987), 'Werckmeister harmnik'/'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Man from London' (2007), even if Tarr's eye here is rather more focused on the naturalistic than stylized, on close-up, eye-level observation as opposed to distanced and protracted examinations of figures in portentous, dilapidated landscapes. ... Tarr wastes none of his time, using the protracted scenes and objective style in order to allow the audience to study the characters and see a human face given to a rich, complex problem that covers philosophical as well as sociological questions."

References



Category:1981 films

Category:Films directed by Bla Tarr

Category:Hungarian drama films

Category:1980s Hungarian-language films

Category:1981 drama films

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