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Werckmeister Harmonies [4K UHD] [US]
Werckmeister Harmonies [4K UHD] [US]
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Release Date: 16/4/2024
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.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, supervised and approved by director Béla Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Family Nest (1979), Tarr's first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim