“Visionary” to arrive in Yerevan
One of the guests at the 8th Golden Apricot International Film Festival will be Hungarian film director Bella Tar. Critics often compare Tar to Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Angelopoulos, while film experts consider Tar the true "visionary". His black-and-white films are extremist, an attempt to create a totally new type of cinematography, making it seem like film has not had a history of 100 years.
The retrospective screenings of the acclaimed director will include Malediction, Man from London and his latest film Horse of Turin.
The motive for the film Horse of Turin was Fridrich Nitzche's mythical story about eleven years of silence. The director considers this film the end of his career since Nitzche was the one to speak about nihilism as one of the characteristics of the period of the loss of ideals and values of the past. The theories of the death of God and nihilism make up the cornerstone of not only the films by the German philosopher, but the Hungarian film director as well. Bella Tar doesn't like it when people call her films "metaphysical" and circumvents philosophical generalizations. Tar calls on her audience to "believe by seeing and listening to their hearts", reports the Golden Apricot Film Festival's press center.
