Werckmeister Harmonies 4k Restoration Trailer

One of the major achievements of twentyfirstcentury cinema thus far, Béla Tarrs mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circuscomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagoguelike figure known as the Princearrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirtynine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. Opens in New York at Film at Lincoln Center 5, 26.