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Bloody Stasis Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr's decision to adapt a novel by the late Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon is nothing if not ironic. Simenon was wildly prolific and created tightly paced tales, while Tarr-well, you know. Sátántangó? Werckmeister Harmonies? If you IMDb Simenon, Tarr emerges as the clear database loser-by a long shot: 173 entries to Tarr's 14. But in The Man from London Tarr achieves an uncanny re-creation of Simenon's stifling atmosphere, oddly blacked-out characters, and dead-end narrative style....