WED JUL 5, 2023 9:30 PM

WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | New 4K restoration courtesy of Janus Films 

Limited Engagement

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  • RELEASED IN: 2000
  • 145 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Béla Tarr/Ágnes Hranitzky

ABOUT THE FILM:

In Hungarian with English subtitles. 

One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Hungary