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Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister harmóniák

2000

Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi ...

7.6

3,433

Drama. Mystery This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. It is twenty degrees below zero. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see - as the outcome of their wait - the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Mesmerizing (...) I find that Tarr does, in fact, make films both unique and original, and in a style I find beautiful (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Derek Elley Variety	"Another hypnotic meditation on popular demagogy and mental manipulation (...) A filmmaker whose pics work on the emotions in as unfathomable a way as the compositions of great symphonists."
		Richard Williams The Guardian	"Novel, compelling and sometimes quite astonishingly moving (...) Tarr is turning cinema's most abused dimension [time] into its most effective tool."
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A chilling, mesmerizing, intense account of ethnic cleansing (in spirit if not in letter) (...) This is essential viewing"
		Jonathan Romney The Independent	"Watching this extraordinary Hungarian feature, you really feel as if you're suspended in some black, bottomless chasm, and its characters are less like humans than wandering phantoms."
		Lawrence Van Gelder The New York Times	"Mysterious, poetic and allusive, 'The Werckmeister Harmonies' beckons filmgoers who complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for a film to ponder and debate."
		Noel Murray AV Club	"'Werckmeister's standout moments are searing like few others in film history"
		William Thomas Empire	"While this is anything but an easy watch, it's also a film packed with memorable images (...) For once, understanding is less important than experiencing (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Weird, wonderful, witty and unsettling."

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