Werckmeister Harmonies, courtesy Janus
New York, NY (April 11, 2023) – Film at Lincoln Center announces the new 4K restoration of Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s Werckmeister Harmonies, opening May 26 in the Walter Reade Theater. Tickets are on sale now.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Hungary/Italy/Germany/France, 2000, 145m
Hungarian with English subtitles
Three years in the making, Werckmeister Harmonies is a sustained, real-time immersion in the universe of weatherbeaten villages and full-contact metaphysics in which co-directors Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, and writer László Krasznahorkai specialize. A curiously smart paper carrier named János (Lars Rudolph, in an astonishingly complex performance) observes a mysterious traveling circus—complete with a stuffed whale—that comes to town and marks a sea change in relationships of all kinds—between families, lovers, peasants and royals. In this movie, voted as one of the best of its decade by Film Comment, each action, however small, carries the weight of revolution. With Fassbinder icon Hanna Schygulla. New 4K restoration. A Janus Films release.
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