Hungary.
Somewhere after the 1848-49 revolution.
Hungary is the part of the Monarchy.
Modernisation...railroad...end of old glorious days.
Farkos Csapó Gyurka, the ex-con of the hungarian plains, the Puszta, after long years of prison, excapes and seeks revenge on his horse - while in the background the sun generously rises, and Ferenc Sebo sings a traditional hungarian song that is maybe the most hipnotic and iconic in the whole hungarian film makeing...
Ok, Márta Sebestyén's voice and song in the English Patient was also damn pretty cool!
As the old fella begins to repay his debt, it turns out, that "those years and times" has long gone, the people has changed, the Puszta is changing, the world is changing...and what if in the plains not even the old cowboy-gengster is the meanest person in the walley of darkness anymore?
Everything is changeing. Even the chase (genious) between the old con and the old sheriff is just an odd reviving of some old memory...
A slow film, with great narration, great shots, great faces and characters...and with a painfully great but silent ending.
If Morricone would have been doing this...and the story and place is not very-very hungarian...this film would be in the best 500 of the world I think. But I'm hungarian, so...
As the old fella begins to repay his debt, it turns out, that "those years and times" has long gone, the people has changed, the Puszta is changing, the world is changing...and what if in the plains not even the old cowboy-gengster is the meanest person in the walley of darkness anymore?
Everything is changeing. Even the chase (genious) between the old con and the old sheriff is just an odd reviving of some old memory...
A slow film, with great narration, great shots, great faces and characters...and with a painfully great but silent ending.
If Morricone would have been doing this...and the story and place is not very-very hungarian...this film would be in the best 500 of the world I think. But I'm hungarian, so...
