Werckmeister Harmonies
Director: Bela Tarr
(Watched in Taipei's Golden Horse Filmfest)
For years, the films of Hungarian director Bela Tarr (including the seven-hour Satantango) were the stuff of legend. But finally his mysterious, mystical and meditative films are finally being screened in the U.S. and now in Columbia. In his latest, Tarr relates a fairy tale about a troubled village that goes mad when the circus comes to town. Along the way, the film summons up echoes of Kafka, Beckett, Lynch and Kubrick as it plunges us into its jarringly dreamlike world. "Tarr is one of the most extraordinary filmmakers working today and Harmonies is one of his best works, an unabashed art film of real daring and power." (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune)
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