SUN FEB 25, 2024 4:00 PM WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Love Behind the Scenes’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
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