![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Werckmeister Harmonies will open at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center on May 26. 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. 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. 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. Based on the 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, the film will be re-released in New York later this month with more cities to follow. Ágnes Hranitzky, Bela Tarr, Janus Films, Werckmeister HarmoniesĪ trailer has arrived for the 4K restoration of Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film Werckmeister Harmonies from Janus Films. ![]()
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