Béla Tarr retrospective at Premiers Plans festival in Angers

The 32nd Premiers Plans festival in Angers, held from January 17 to 26, 2020, featured a retrospective of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, with six of his films screened in restored copies. The festival, dedicated to first European films, took place across various venues in Angers, including the art-house cinema Les 400 coups, which is split by a street named after actress Jeanne Moreau. Tarr's 7.5-hour masterpiece Sátántangó (1994) was shown in one day, with Tarr present for a Q&A. The article, written by Christophe Le Gac, is a fictional account imagining a meeting with Tarr, Deleuze, Rancière, and Krasznahorkai at the Myriagone bookstore, where they discuss Tarr's philosophy of time, his disdain for narrative, and his formalist materialism. The piece references Tarr's collaborators: composer Mihály Víg, co-director Ágnes Hranitzky, and writer László Krasznahorkai. The retrospective was part of a course on art theory called 'Arcinéhi ou la fabrique de l'image.'