Esquire Theatre

Conveyor Belt Books
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

The Esquire Theatre welcomes Conveyor Belt Books as they host their November pick, the thematically thought-provoking Werckmeister Harmonies which adds another indelible achievement to Béla Tarr's fascinating filmography.

About the film: 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.

 

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