Werckmeister Harmonies
Southeast Asian Premiere
Béla TARR, Ágnes HRANITZKY Hungary, France, Germany, Italy 2000 145 min M18 (Some Nudity)
An unnamed town in communist-era Hungary comes undone in the presence of a mysterious travelling circus in this slow-cinema masterpiece.
A strange circus arrives in a small Hungarian town, with a preserved dead whale and an enigmatic entity known as ‘The Prince’ as its star attractions. While timid newspaper deliveryman János is drawn to this spectacle, the circus begins to have an incendiary effect on the rest of the townsfolk, unleashing a slow-burning psychological contagion that escalates into mass hysteria.
An apocalyptic parable of society collapsing under the weight of history and faceless demagogues, Werckmeister Harmonies is adapted from László Krasznahorkai’s 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance. Composed of 39 languid black-and-white shots, the film’s formal rigour and affective intensity unfurl like viscous paint on an expansive canvas.
2 Dec, Sat 2:00PM / 145 min
Oldham Theatre
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Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister harmóniák
Béla TARR, Ágnes HRANITZKY
Hungary, France, Germany, Italy
2000
Hungarian
English
145 min
M18 (Some Nudity)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Béla TARR
Hungarian auteur Béla TARR has co- directed three films, including Werckmeister Harmonies, with Ágnes HRANITZKY, who has also edited a majority of Tarr’s films. Their last film, The Turin Horse (2011), premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear.
Ágnes HRANITZKY
Hungarian auteur Béla TARR has co-directed three films, including Werckmeister Harmonies, with Ágnes HRANITZKY, who has also edited a majority of Tarr’s films. Their last film, The Turin Horse (2011), premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear.
Lars RUDOLPH
Peter FITZ
Hanna SCHYGULLA
Franz GOËSS
Paul SAADOUN
Miklós SZITA
Joachim VIN VIETINGHOFF
László KRASZNAHORKAI
Béla TARR
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