![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the Cinematheque programming in the U.S. “Werckmeister Harmonies” opens Friday, May 26 at Film at Lincoln Center with other venues to follow. ‘Padre Pio’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Prays for Freedom in Abel Ferrara’s Italian Epic ![]() In 39 of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, “Werckmeister Harmonies” unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus - complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince - arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. Per distributor Janus Films, one of the major achievements of 21st-century cinema, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. It’s Béla Tarr season this year, as not only is the Hungarian filmmaking making a rare appearance in the United States for a Los Angeles American Cinematheque retrospective of his work, but Janus Films is also re-releasing his 2000 masterpiece “ Werckmeister Harmonies.” ![]()
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