producers, left the project on September 5, 2005. After meeting with the producers and their new French partner, Paul Saadoun of 13 Production, Coficin consented to completing the film. On February 6, 2006, Tarr and producer Gbor Tni issued a press release which documented at length the developments with the troubled production to that date, and expressed their hope and intent to persevere in completing the film. Tarr duly restarted shooting in March 2006, after a year of inactivity.
Release
The Man from London premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Tarr’s first film to do so. Although its showing was highly anticipated, the slow pace and prolonged shots of the film “had the press fleeing like panicked slaughterhouse cattle” as The New York Times put it, and it won no prize. This failure was attributed by the film’s French distributor Shellac
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