Dealer (2004)

Dealer: Directed by Benedek Fliegauf. With Felicián Keresztes, Barbara Thurzó, Lajos Szakács, Anikó Szigeti. A drug dealer spends his last day alive pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

“During the 1980u0026#39;s, no director fascinated me and often frustrated me more than Tarkovsky, the Russian who added a new dimension to the viewing requirements of an audience. His wonderful u0026quot;Solarisu0026quot;, his incredibly slow and drawn-out u0026quot;Stalkeru0026quot;, his magnificent u0026quot;Andrei Rublevu0026quot; and his demanding and enigmatic u0026quot;Sacrificeu0026quot; were all noteworthy in that no-one who saw any of them could, I believe, ever forget them, as the viewer grappled, for years to come, on what Tarkovsky had sought and/or achieved. With u0026quot;Dealeru0026quot;, we have the movie which has probably the best soundtrack I have encountered. The purr of a cat fills the theatre with stereo magnificence and a u0026quot;whistling windu0026quot; sounds backgrounds almost every minute of the movie. It never dominates the story, but it enhances the slow deliberation on the ever-swirling camera, which advances and retreats on the actor and which is a marvelous call for intense concentration by the viewer. An audience who was not prepared to concentrate would probably call u0026quot;Dealeru0026quot; too slow or ponderous; absolutely not!: it shows the true poetry of cinema which is all too rarely encountered. Full marks to the director and the actors for creating what I consider one of the best movies I have seen in years…and I see a huge number of movies.”