Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies is a film of constant symbolism and allegory. It is the greatest philosophical and political allegory since Sátántangó, another film by master auteur Béla Tarr. Werckmeister Harmonies is Tarr's most exciting film (although Sátántangó remains his best)…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

There is no comfort in the worlds created by Bela Tarr. He has the unique ability to create his very own universe within the stories he chooses to relate. Otherworldly, yet real, Tarr's earth is a singularly harsh and unforgiving place, a place in which he chooses to…

DirkH

Why do I hold Werckmeister Harmonies aloft as the greatest film I have ever seen? A huge part of it, admittedly, and the thing that makes me think it will remain my favourite film to the day I die, is its profound personal relevance. I first saw the film about 5 years ago…

Ronan Doyle

The original title "The Melancholy of Resistance" is apt. A weary, hunched-shouldered, and hypnotic funeral march of the highest order. Wandering the ruins of a world so broken and immiserated you can't even remember what the foundations were supposed to look like before…

Josh Lewis

Language, you are, in all your beauty, so inadequate, so incapable of expressing what this film did for — and to — me. After being in a oneiric state of true awe for 144 minutes, with the final shot of the film, I surrendered something within me. That’s what it felt like.…

Scott Barley

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Felipe F.

Werckmeister Harmonies is a towering masterpiece so hypnotic, and so bewildering, that there is no way I will ever be capable of forming my thoughts into a coherent review. Rather, I am going to rattle off some of my initial reactions (as I frequently do after viewing the…

Eli Hayes

life-affirming cinema; hope out of the deepest despair. bela tarr's camera is the most tender and ethical i have ever seen -- the end of this world is given a dignity and sadness, but also a love that these things are what they must be, that collapse clears away decay and…

comrade_yui

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Béla Tarr, on the way of becoming an absolute giant of cinema, on the way of portraying a strikingly gorgeous poetry, on his way of transforming real life into cinema, is back with the best film of the year: Werckmeister…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋