Damnation, says Tarr, “is about the landscape, the elements, and nature, about a unique world in which nothing remains.” The first film in his trilogy of László Krasznahorkai adaptations, it features Karrer, an aimless patron at Titanik, the aptly named bar in a crumbling mining town, and his obsession with an unhappily married cabaret singer. A nihilistic tale of betrayal, Damnation “sits astride the dissolution of the communist world, and documents this moment in a way that only great art can,” wrote Piers Handling of the Toronto International Film Festival. 1988, 35mm, in Hungarian with English subtitles, 122 minutes.
Damnation (Kárhozat)
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