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Werckmeister Harmonies
Directed by
Béla Tarr
Not Rated
2001
2h 19m
Drama
,
Mystery
7.9
97%
90%
7.8
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A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
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Cast of Werckmeister Harmonies
Lars Rudolph
János Valuska
Peter Fitz
György Eszter
Hanna Schygulla
Tünde Eszter
Alfréd Járai
Lajos Harrer
Gyula Pauer
Mr. Hagelmayer
János Derzsi
Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat
Mihály Kormos
Factotum
Putyi Horváth
Porter
Éva Almássy Albert
Aunt Piri
Péter Dobai
Chief Constable
László feLugossy
Housepainter
Barna Mihók
Coachman
Sandor Bese
The Prince
Enikő Börcsök
Laszlóné Horváth
Mrs. Harrer
György Barkó
Mr. Nadabán
Dobák Lajos
Mr. Volent
András Fekete
Mr. Árgyelán
Gyuri Dósa Kiss
Józsi Mihályfi
Werckmeister Harmonies Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
As wearying as the film becomes in its long, bleak sequences, its uniquely cinematic and emotion-charged experience makes the effort worthwhile.
SF Weekly
Michael Fox
A mesmerizing eulogy to the waning days of artistic beauty and free speech, and not to be missed.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
The thing is, and this is easy to lose sight of in conversations about tracking shots and pointedly empty acting and symbolic cetaceans, [this] is an extraordinarily pleasurable experience to watch.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
... it is difficult not to be moved by the whale carcass, just as later, a naked old man discovered standing in a hospital bath finally quells the rioting - both symbols of man facing his mortality.
Variety
Derek Elley
Six years after the 7-1/2-hour Satan's Tango, Magyar maverick Bela Tarr makes a stunning feature return with "Werckmeister Harmonies," another hypnotic meditation on popular demagogy and mental manipulation that's a snap at 145 minutes.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Bela Tarr's style seems to be an attempt to regard his characters with great intensity and respect, to observe them without jostling them, to follow unobtrusively as they move through their worlds, which look so ordinary and are so awesome, like ours.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A chilling, mesmerizing, intense account of ethnic cleansing (in spirit if not in letter) from Hungarian master Bela Tarr.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
Limited appeal, a slow pace, a demanding film; but as interesting a work of art as the best of films
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
Operatic.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A film that encourages one to put on their thinking cap.
Filmcritic.com
Jeremiah Kipp
dares to say the apocalypse has a startling, bleak beauty all its own.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Over two hours and 20 minutes, not much actually happens, and Tarr creates a mood so lulling that even the rare scenes of dialogue can be hard to follow. But Werckmeister's standout moments are searing like few others in film history.
Cinematic Reflections
Derek Smith
It is an arduous task, but the film achieves a transcendent and ethereal beauty that only the few truly great masterpieces attain.
Boston Phoenix
Chris Fujiwara
The film creates a vivid sense of the reality of the townspeople and their daily lives, even though Tarr deliberately makes their social relations hard to decipher.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Using long takes, sensuous camera movements and the mournful beauty of Mihaly Vig's score, Tarr offers in Werckmeister Harmonies an indelible statement on loneliness and spiritual thirst.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
An unabashed art film of real daring and power.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Rudolph is superb as the film's taciturn protagonist.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Tarr's precise yet effortless command for the long take is so transcendent it suggests the presence of God.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A totally sustained immersion in the magisterially bleak, voluptuously monochromatic, undeniably beautiful universe of muddy villages and cell-like rooms.
New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Mysterious, poetic and allusive.
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