The Man from London

Photographed in an inky monochrome that enhances the sense of bleak malevolence, this is not only an existentialist mystery, but a sobering study of domestic disillusion and reckless greed.

...sees Tarr's notoriously slow-roving camera-eye taking in the murder-and-money intrigue of a dark, unspecified port city.

...a film that demands a colossal amount of persistence and contemplation.

This mystery could have stood as one of the finest noir films in cinema, with the luscious black-and-white photography of masterfully composed visions of darkness, pierced by carefully balanced light.