WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
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- RELEASED IN: 2000
- 145 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Béla Tarr and 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
