Werckmeister Harmonies · Béla Tarr
Hungary, Italy, Germany, France · 2000 · 145’
6 Oct · 18:30 · Ilídio Pinho Auditorium

Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) 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.