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The Man from London 12 rating

Tilda Swinton stars in this profoundly nocturnal Georges Simenon adaptation.

Drama 2007 139 mins

Director: Béla Tarr

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Overview

Tarr’s film is possibly cinema’s strangest adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel. In a port town, a railway worker comes into possession of a suitcase of money. Then a police inspector from London arrives, exuding solemn foreboding. The crime narrative is nudged into the realm of dark abstraction by Tarr’s characteristically brooding camera moves, while Tilda Swinton unsurprisingly makes a perfect fit with the director’s universe.

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