Werckmeister Harmonies

4.67
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    2001

    Synopsis

    A mysterious circus excites a small Hungarian town into a rebellion when a promised act doesn't perform.

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    Cast

    • Lars RudolphJános Valuska
    • Peter FitzGyörgy Eszter
    • Hanna SchygullaTünde Eszter
    • Alfréd JáraiLajos Harrer
    • Gyula PauerMr. Hagelmayer
    • János DerzsiMan In The Broad-Cloth Coat
    • Mihály KormosFactotum
    • Putyi HorváthPorter
    • Éva Almássy AlbertAunt Piri
    • Péter DobaiChief Constable

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      This is as challenging as movies come, alluding to everything from philosopher Thomas Hobbes to the history of Western music.
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      An indelible statement on loneliness and spiritual thirst.
    • 100

      New York Post

      While Tarr's newest epic, Werckmeister Harmonies, isn't intended for the shopping-mall crowd, it is more viewer-friendly and will please adventurous moviegoers.
    • 90

      Variety

      A stunning feature -- another hypnotic meditation on popular demagogy and mental manipulation.
    • 90

      New Times (L.A.)

      The pacing is slow, but the film is entrancing and earns a permanent place in the viewer's mind.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      Mysterious, poetic and allusive, The Werckmeister Harmonies beckons filmgoers who complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for a film to ponder and debate.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      A work of bravura filmmaking.
    • 80

      TV Guide Magazine

      The film could easily be reduced to a parable of post-Communist Eastern Europe, but the allegory digs deeper into the very order of things, exemplified by 17th-century musicologist Andreas Werckmeister's arbitrary imposition of a "tempered" tonal system over naturally occurring tunings.

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