Stateside cinephiles know György Fehér for his collaborations with fellow Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr on his masterpieces “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.” But the late Fehér was a filmmaker of his personal proper, though his movies show difficult to see exterior his native nation.
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American audiences get an opportunity to see one in every of Fehér’s two function movies subsequent month in NYC, when Film Society At Lincoln Center screens a 4k restoration of “Twilight,” Fehér’s 1990 serial killer drama. And “Twilight” proves simply as bleak as a few of Tarr’s greatest films. Based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt‘s 1958 novella “The Pledge,” the movie follows a retired police detective who takes determined and obsessive measures to trace down a serial killer generally known as “The Giant.”
Arbelos debuted their new restoration of “Twilight” on the Berlinale in February. Miklós Gurbán oversaw the movie’s restoration at National Film Institute – Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab. Other current restorations from Arbelos embrace Tarr’s 1994 movie “Satantango” and 1988’s “Damnation,” Marcell Jankovics’ “Son of the White Mare,” Nina Menkes’ two 1991 movies “Queen of Diamonds,” and “The Juniper Tree,” which stars Björk.
Fehér’s different function movie, “Passion,” an adaptation of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” premiered at Cannes in 1998 within the “Un Certain Regard” part. Both than movie and “Twilight” share Tarr’s love of stark black-and-white pictures. So anticipate the brand new restoration of “Twilight” to be a fantastic sight on the large display screen.
“I want to show to what extent the search for justice stands in ridiculous contrast to the eternity of nature,” Fehér stated about “Twilight” in 1991. “Meanwhile, it is precisely this search that I am so fascinated by.” Join Fehér on that search when “Twilight” hits Film At Lincoln Center in NYC on April 21. Watch a trailer for the movie beneath.