1985 · drama · hungarian
Werckmeister
Directed by Béla Tarr2h 19m1985
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
Our read: Werckmeister (1985) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal drama · hungarian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / hungarian, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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“You want Béla Tarr slow-cinema dread as a circus whale unravels a Hungarian town.”
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