MOVIE: WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES

Date & Time: Thursday, September 10, 7:00
Dinner at Taqueria Guadalajara next door 5:30
305 E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA 92701

Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422

Tickets $13.00
https://thefridacinema.org/purchase/1962182/

Trailer https://youtu.be/-tJVdq_G_Go?si=3sD2iO6kJY3eHzbD
Director: Béla Tarr Run Time: 139 min. Release Year: 2001 Language: Hungarian

Starring: Alfréd Járai, Gyula Pauer, Hanna Schygulla, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz

Our four film retrospective on the films of Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr kicks off with a new restoration of his 2001 masterpiece Werckmeister Harmonies.

One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, this 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.