on 4/25/2023, 9:00 am
The folks at Arbelos Films, champions of such diverse auteurs as Bela Tarr, Dennis Hopper and Toshio Matsumoto, have dug into the late-80s Eastern European arthouse cauldron with their latest restoration, Hungarian director Gyorgy Feher's TWILIGHT (1990), based loosely on the same Friedrich Durrenmatt source novel that produced earlier variants (1958's IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and 2001's THE PLEDGE).
Arbelos' restoration received a good bit of notice after its February screening at the Berlinale; the film is wrapping up a week-long run at Lincoln Center in the next several days, with more festival screenings scheduled for May. Figure on it getting some kind of exposure in LA (probably the American Cinematheque) and possibly in the Bay Area (most likely at a venue such as Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive).
The film has a pace similar to what we've seen in early Bela Tarr; don't expect a slam-bang type of thriller, but a more measured and visually layered exposition.
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