Fresh
As wearying as the film becomes in its long, bleak sequences, its uniquely cinematic and emotion-charged experience makes the effort worthwhile.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Werckmeister Harmonies
2001 · 2h 19m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Béla Tarr
,
Ágnes Hranitzky
Overview
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
Director and cast
- Béla Tarr Director
- Ágnes Hranitzky Director
- Lars Rudolph as János Valuska
- Peter Fitz as György Eszter
- Hanna Schygulla as Tünde Eszter
- Alfréd Járai as Lajos Harrer
- Gyula Pauer as Mr. Hagelmayer
- János Derzsi as Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat
- Mihály Kormos as Factotum
- Putyi Horváth as Porter
- Éva Almássy Albert as Aunt Piri
- Péter Dobai as Chief Constable
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Derek Elley, Variety
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A chilling, mesmerizing, intense account of ethnic cleansing (in spirit if not in letter) from Hungarian master Bela Tarr.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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