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Article: Transylvanian horror - without the vampires
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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In an atmosphere of mist-cloaked menace and gothic doom this
British directed thriller is both timeless and bang up-to-date Film
Katalin Varga Peter Strickland 82 MINS, 15
Peter Strickland's Katalin Varga is a powerful, unsettling film.
It's also, as we journos say, a good story. Aspiring British
director winds up teaching English in Budapest, then inherits some
money and stakes it all on a long shot - making a feature film in
Hungarian. The film plays in competition in Berlin to rapturous
acclaim, prompting much discussion about why it's increasingly the
case that practitioners of art cinema have to leave Britain if they
want to make something truly distinctive. Mind you, you can see ...