Family Nest (1979)

Highly Recommended

Hungary

Feature Film

Original Title: Családi tüzfészek

Writer/Director: Tarr Béla

Cinematography: Pap Ferenc

Composers: Móricz Mihály, Szörényi Szabolcs, Tolcsvay László

Cast: Horváth Lászlóné, Horváth László, Kun Gábor, Ifj. Kun Gábor, Kún Gáborné, Szekeres Jánosné, Korn József, Irén Rácz, Oláh Jánosné, Horváth Krisztina, Kádár Adrienn

Tarr’s scintillatingly scarifying debut, an impassioned polemic (that never feels polemical), brilliantly captures, in an unrelenting series of handheld close-ups, a family’s implosion, caused by Hungary’s hopelessly bureaucratic housing policies, which led to a situation where three generations of one family were forced to cohabit in a one bedroom flat. Iain.Stott