Werckmeister Harmonies (4K UHD, #1215)
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This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by LĂĄszlĂł Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circusâcomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Princeâarrives 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 BĂ©la Tarr and codirector-editor Ăgnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director BĂ©la Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Family Nest (1979), Tarrâs first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Polly Dedman
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This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by LĂĄszlĂł Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circusâcomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Princeâarrives 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 BĂ©la Tarr and codirector-editor Ăgnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director BĂ©la Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Family Nest (1979), Tarrâs first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Polly Dedman
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This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by LĂĄszlĂł Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circusâcomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Princeâarrives 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 BĂ©la Tarr and codirector-editor Ăgnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director BĂ©la Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Family Nest (1979), Tarrâs first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Polly Dedman
