TUE JUN 6, 2023 7:30 PM WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES $15.00 (members-only) Aero Theatre | Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Béla Tarr. Moderated by Scott Foundas. West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration, courtesy of Janus Films. ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year Two’ and ‘Boundless Damnation: The Films of Béla Tarr’ Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account.
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