Családi tüzfészek aka Family Nest (Bela Tarr, 1979)


Family Nest, director Bela Tarr’s realistic first feature (astonishingly made when the director was 22) about the 1970s Hungarian housing crisis opens with the quote: “This is a true story. It didn’t happen to people in the film, but it could have.” Considering the proliferation of non-professional actors in this movie, that statement probably isn’t too far from the truth. In a departure from the intensely stylized, heavily choreographed camerawork that dominated his later masterpieces made after Damnation, he shoots Family Nest in a verite style with direct, environmental sound, location shooting, and editing that’s a bit too rough to be artful. As such, it’s a film that’s way more conventional than Tarr’s later works, and not nearly as visually satisfying. The outlook of life here is so unrelentingly bleak that at one point when Tarr inserts a carefree montage at a local carnival that plays out with the accompaniment of pop music feels wholly out of place until Tarr concludes the sequence with a close-up of a character vomiting, a shock stunt that puts thing back on track. As in nearly all of Tarr’s films, the dingy barroom is only escape from dingy houses that the characters live in, and alcoholism seems the inevitable reprieve from their miserable lives.


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