This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus trailer, which is put up in the main square, to see - as the outcome of their wait - the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even fro... (Full plot summary below)
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This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus trailer, which is put up in the main square, to see - as the outcome of their wait - the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs - the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost - disturbs the order of the small town. Aambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...
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| New York PostV.A. MusettoWhile Tarr's newest epic, Werckmeister Harmonies, isn't intended for the shopping-mall crowd, it is more viewer-friendly and will please adventurous moviegoers. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThis is as challenging as movies come, alluding to everything from philosopher Thomas Hobbes to the history of Western music. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannAn indelible statement on loneliness and spiritual thirst. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezTarr's precise yet effortless command for the long take is so transcendent it suggests the presence of God. |
| Phantom TollboothJ. Robert ParksWerckmeister Harmonies has pleasures to spare. The cinematography by Gabor Medvigy is spectacular... The score by Mihaly Vig is simply one of the best of the year. Haunting and elegiac, it complements the story and visuals in gorgeous ways. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonI haven't seen any other Tarr films ... but Werckmeister Harmonies alone convinces me that he's one of today's great film artists. |
| Sight and SoundJonathan RomneyTarr's true achievement is to attain the condition of silence, and of bottomless, awesomely inscrutable nightmare. |
| Film4James MottramA courageous and utterly unique world-view that will haunt you for days after you have seen it, Tarr's film -- despite the obscurity of its meaning -- remains a stimulating and daring piece of cinema to the end. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanA totally sustained immersion in the magisterially bleak, voluptuously monochromatic, undeniably beautiful universe of muddy villages and cell-like rooms. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumA chilling, mesmerizing, intense account of ethnic cleansing (in spirit if not in letter) from Hungarian master Bela Tarr. |
