Overview
- The Hungarian Filmmakers’ Association and the European Film Academy announced Tarr’s death, noting he had suffered a long illness and that no cause was provided.
- Tarr made nine features across a decades-long career, concluding with The Turin Horse in 2011, which won the Berlin International Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.
- His 1994 epic Sátántangó, adapted from László Krasznahorkai, is widely regarded as his magnum opus, appeared on Sight & Sound’s top films lists, and screened in a 4K restoration in 2019.
- A leading figure of slow cinema, he was known for extended takes, sparse dialogue, and stark black-and-white imagery that influenced filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant and Jim Jarmusch.
- He founded the film.factory school in Sarajevo in 2012 and led it until 2016, earned honors including Hungary’s Kossuth Prize and the European Film Academy’s 2023 Honorary Award, and is survived by his collaborator and wife, Ágnes Hranitzky.