Family Nest
Q&A with Béla Tarr
Join Béla Tarr in person at additional screenings on June 13. View entire schedule here or below:
- Tues., June 13 at 6pm: Family Nest (Q&A) – standby only!
- Tues., June 13 at 9pm: The Outsider (intro) – limited tickets!
Tarr’s striking debut feature, begun when he was 22, has been likened to the work of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach for its warts-and-all snapshot of a seven-member family sharing a small apartment during a national housing crisis. The overcrowding puts particular pressure on the marriage of Laci, a soldier newly discharged from the army, and his wife, Irén, who spends her days searching in vain for a home of their own—and an escape from Laci’s belligerent father. Impressively acted by a cast of mostly nonprofessional actors, Family Nest offers a pungent critique of patriarchy in all its forms, and early evidence of Tarr’s innate mastery of the moving image. New 2K restoration. A Janus Films release.
For $30, receive one ticket to a film in Béla Tarr In Person and a select menu item at Café Paradiso, located in FLC’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Learn more about our dinner and a movie combo here.