SUN JUN 7, 2026 3:00 PM WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre | In honor of Béla Tarr‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’
ABOUT THE FILM: In Hungarian with English subtitles. One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. 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. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Hungary