An unrelenting, smell-the-sour-breath portrait of a blue-collar marriage dissolving under pressure from Communist-era poverty, masculine inadequacy, and restless depression.
The Prefab People (1982)
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Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 5
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Synopsis: The life of a working class couple struggling to get by forms the focus for this downbeat feature film from acclaimed director Bela Tarr. Backtracking through their lives, Tarr illustrates how this couple have reached this point in their... The life of a working class couple struggling to get by forms the focus for this downbeat feature film from acclaimed director Bela Tarr. Backtracking through their lives, Tarr illustrates how this couple have reached this point in their lives, and also why they are so argumentative and abusive towards each other. As usual, Tarr doesn't flinch from showing the raw emotion and unparalleled depression that beset many of his fellow countrymen during the 1980s, making this another worthy entry into his canon of films. [More]
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It's the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's third feature (1982) is the best of his early forays into Cassavetes-style social realism.
[It] is the best of [Tarr's] early works because it achieves such a degree of intimacy that its lack of ostentatious filmmaking never impedes its ability to observe its characters.
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