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And some info about #97, Werckmeister Harmonies...
It currently has a 98% Certified Fresh Tomatometer score among critics.
Meanwhile, the film has a 8.1/10 score on IMDb (with 13,710 votes).
Roger Ebert gave it ★★★★ and said:
And some info about #97, Werckmeister Harmonies...
It currently has a 98% Certified Fresh Tomatometer score among critics.
Meanwhile, the film has a 8.1/10 score on IMDb (with 13,710 votes).
Roger Ebert gave it ★★★★ and said:
"Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies is maddening if you are not in sympathy with it, mesmerizing if you are. If you have not walked out after 20 or 30 minutes, you will thereafter not be able to move from your seat. 'Dreamlike', Jim Jarmusch calls it. Nightmarish as well; doom-laded, filled with silence and sadness, with the crawly feeling that evil is penetrating its somber little town."While Philip French, of the Guardian, said:
"The central thrust of this pessimistic fable is obvious, though individual sequences are frequently puzzling. It's shot in static or very slow-moving long-takes; the monochrome images are deliberately oppressive; the pace would strike the organisers of a state funeral as excessively slow."As for our MoFo reviewers, @ScarletLion said:
"Long scenes, long takes, little dialogue and bizarre in parts, but extraordinarily beautiful... My first ever Tarr movie. And it's probably in my top 100 movies of all time."While @BlueLion said:
"Werckmeister Harmonies is enigmatic, mysterious, and one hell of an experience. The film looks minimal and feels natural despite the ambiguity surrounding it, and its black and white photography combined with the film's mood and use of location help to give the work a sense of timelessness: it doesn't matter where, why, or when the film is taking place, it is a work which is universal in its themes, and which could be seen as a metaphor for life itself."
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