New 4K re-release trailer for Béla Tarr’s ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’
By Alex Billington
May 6, 2023
source: YouTube
“We’re not going anywhere. Not now and not later.” Janus Films has unveiled a new official trailer for the re-release of the 4K restoration of the 2000 film titled Werckmeister harmonies, which originally appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in the Fortnite Directors section. This new 4K version premiered last year at the Toronto and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festivals, and will play in several arthouse theaters, starting with the Cinema at Lincoln Center in New York. Worth catching in the cinema if you have the chance. “Bella Tarr’s mesmerizing parable of social collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical and mystical resonance.” In it, a young man witnesses the escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction – featuring a massive stuffed whale and a strange man known as “The Prince”. The stars of the movie Sandor Besa, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hana Shigula, and many other locals. The title refers to the baroque music theorist Andreas Werkmeister. Giorgi Ezter, a central character in the story, gives a monologue presenting a theory that Werkmeister’s harmonic principles are responsible for aesthetic and philosophical problems in all music since then, and should be eliminated by a new theory of tuning and harmony.
Here is the new 4K restoration trailer for Tarr & Hranitzky’s Werckmeister harmoniesM YouTube:
One of the major achievements of 21st century cinema thus far, Bela Tarr’s mesmerizing parable of social collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by celebrated author and frequent Tarr collaborator Laszlo Krazenhorkaj, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village where, one day, a mysterious circus – complete with a giant stuffed whale and a demagogue-like silhouette figure. known as the Prince – arrives and seems to induce a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds steadily towards violence and destruction. In 39 of his signature long takes, etched in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures up an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike horror and unflinching beauty. Werckmeister harmoniesor Werckmeister HarmoniákDirected in collaboration with Hungarian filmmakers Bella Tar (The Prefab People, Damnation, Satantango, The Man from London, The Turin Horse) & Agnes Harnitzky (The man from London, the Turin horse). The film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight sidebar, and will then open in US theaters in late 2001. The Janus films will be relaunched Werckmeister harmonies In 4K in selected theaters in the US (Lincoln Center in New York at first) has begun May 26, 2023 the month. For more information, visit them Official Website.
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