The Prefab People

The Prefab People

1982
Drama, Family/Kids
1h 42m
Suffering from economic hardships that slowly rip apart their once harmonious relationship, a married couple (Judit Pogany and Robert Koltai) struggle to keep everything together -- yet the husband becomes increasingly passive and the wife increasingly strident as time goes by. Their difficulties are created and portrayed by the spontaneous reactions of the actors themselves, following outlines of the story rather than the memorized lines of a scripted scenario... (All Movie Guide)
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The Prefab People

1982
Drama, Family/Kids
1h 42m
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Rated 05 Aug 2012
65
35th
Last two scenes bumped it up by 10. Domestic strife, eh...great cinematography.
Rated 09 Jul 2012
85
80th
Soul crushing, due in part to wonderful acting and the realism. The fact you can hear the camera and other sounds, along with the improvised dialogue, really puts you into their world; a crumbling relationship. So sad, slow paced but never boring.
Rated 29 Apr 2011
83
86th
If you thought Blue Valentine was too sappy and glossy, then here is a less Westernized take on a marriage gone sour. Part-Cassavetes, part-Bergman, this is one of Tarr's earliest, roughest works, which works well with this particular subject matter.
Rated 06 Oct 2008
83
77th
Along with The Outsider and Family Nest, this is one of Tarr's early Cassavetes-style films, and I'd say the best of them. The pseudo-documentary feel is taken a step further when the wife addresses the camera at the end (this might have happened in Family Nest as well, I can't recall). It's a very realistic portrayal of a bickering couple who have differing levels of interest in making the relationship work. A little depressing but it holds your attention.
Rated 13 Oct 2010
60
77th
Penetrating into your soul and at the same time disturbing to get so deeply into someone's else.
Rated 07 Mar 2020
31
23rd
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