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Werckmeister Harmonies

2001, Movie, 2h 19min

This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES unfolds in an unknown time 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 that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

Country: Germany,Hungary,France,Italy

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Reviews

Critic Roger Ebert

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You are lured away from the clock ticking in your mind and drift in a non-temporal state. Tarr's camera drifts as well...

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Critic William Thomas

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...a brooding treatise on the abuse of beauty and power, the malleability of the masses and the helplessness of the individual swept away by a tide of great events.

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Critic Peter Bradshaw

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Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny.

Read full review at The Guardian

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In a small, desolate town in Hungary, a young newspaper delivery man named János Valuska becomes embroiled in a series of strange events after the arrival of a mysterious circus and its enigmatic performer, known only as "The Prince." As tensions rise and the townspeople become increasingly unhinged, János finds himself caught up in a surreal and violent storm that threatens to destroy the very fabric of the community. Meanwhile, János's Uncle György, a musicologist obsessed with finding the perfect musical scale, becomes embroiled in his own personal struggles as he tries to navigate the treacherous political landscape of the town. As the fog closes in and the whale's rotting carcass looms large, the town descends into chaos and destruction, leaving János and György to ponder their own place in this bizarre and unsettling world.

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