Kino immer anders
A poor farmer and his daughter live together in their simple house. It’s a strenuous life. When a monumental storm then rises and the horse stops working, this means the beginning of the end. We follow the two main characters for six days as their difficult life is becoming more and more difficult and they are becoming more and more melancholy. Eating the same boiled potato every day, every day the daughter gets the water from the well, every day she helps her father dress and undress, the same every day. The routine is only interrupted by some figures who occasionally get lost in the house. Even in the eye of the apocalypse, the farmer and his daughter try to pull themselves together every day and pursue their everyday life, which is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Béla Tarr’s film is about everyday life, the end of the world, faith, and the infinite heaviness of human existence. The eternally the same beautiful black and white images create a pull that cannot be escaped and which captures the monotony of life in an impressive way.
Jérôme Bewersdorff
