A fasting fever dream. This was the first time I’d seen this movie since watching it in Avery Fisher Hall last year. I thought it would be less overwhelming or emotional experience without the massive crowd and screen -- but it hits just as hard.
So many additional things I noted this time. The score is such an incredible modernist accomplishment. It’s the kind of music Lazlo Toth might’ve appreciated at the Bauhaus in the 20’s. Atilla wants to reconcile and has been speaking with Elizabet -- but Toth will hear none of it.
This is such a conservative movie. Toth is driven by so many inhumane demons -- but they multiply 1000x whenever he denies his family or stops going to synagogue. Ultimately you see that he returns to god again and again - designing shul after shul and community center after community center.
What an incredible film. Cannot wait for Brady Corbet’s next.
One of the best films I’ve ever seen. Incredible.