Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). In the United States the film was given a limited release in May 2009 by IFC Films, who later made it available through video-on-demand.
Critical reception
Director Bla Tarr at the Sarajevo Film Festival showing of the film.
Critical reaction to The Man from London was to acknowledge its arresting formalist aesthetic, painstakingly composed scenes and glacial pace, and to lament the lack of an engaging plot or compelling characters. The critical consensus was that the film fell short of Tarr’s previous monumental efforts. Among Tarr’s mature films, Variety’s Derek Elley rated the film on a par with his Damnation (1988) but as inferior to the masterpieces Stntang (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), and remarked that it was improbable that The Man From London would put an end to the polarization of