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Tiago Steve
1Jan13
Perfect in every sense of the word. Couldn't have asked for a better way to start this year.
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Gylfi
16Oct12
Unbelievable experience to see this for the first time. The opening scene pulled me right into the film and for the next 145 minutes I was absolutely hypnotised. It is going to be hard to meet my expectations when I will watch Tarr's next film (The Turin horse) soon. This is without a doubt one of my all-time favourite films.
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elf machinery
11Oct12
A spellbinding, haunting, and very humanistic film, despite its dark premise and ominous plot. The scene where the shower curtain is pulled back nearly had me in tears, even if I can't really explain why.
barebeauty
15Sep12
Some of the most beautiful and haunting cinematography you will ever see in a film.
DT
16Jul12
Tarr’s elongated takes are genuinely impressive; delving behind that, his nihilist (and later, anarchical) inclinations can be found steeped in innocuous interactions and guises, other times being espoused through theoretical esoterica - the philosopher - with both returning to the underlying backdrop of small town life and its minutiae, its vacuum. Quite striking, even if it never really leaves a greater, lasting emotional dent further than that.
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my nigga totoro
20Jun12
I think if I were to watch Werckmeister Harmonies under the influence of alcohol it would take an act of some god net yet conceived by man to get me to even move.
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Aaron Garrett
19Jun12
It is one of the greatest stretches of film I know of. But the problem is that no film could ever live up to that first ten minutes -- as excellent as the rest of the film is. The walk around the whale is pretty close.
Matthew Lingo
20May12
100/100. Good lord, this movie. Bela Tarr achieves the perfect balance here between his sometimes alienating grandiosity and an aching sense of loss. A perfect film.
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T. J. Harman
15May12
The opening sequence made me want to cry and it just got better from there. This is an amazing film.
Johann
28Apr12
"All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign. And just imagine, in this infinite sonorous silence, everywhere is an impenetrable darkness."
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Charles Coleman
10Apr12
I love art house films, black & white photography, and long takes but for me those things don't mean a thing if the story is weak and/or the characters are uninteresting. This film was both for me. The techniques were fascinating, mesmerizing at times but it literally lead to nowhere. Just a very cold movie with a lot of walking and pretty imagery. Other than I liked it, others appreciate the film more though.
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Charles Coleman
28Apr12
Liked it more seeing it again but I still have problems with the film. The story is still really incoherent but its a mesmerizing piece of work. The opening sequence is very great.
Howard Orr
18Mar12
A film made with the terrifying, portentous clarity and razor-sharp intuition of a dream.
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Coheed 2.5
26Feb12
In referencing another whale in cultural history, this is a leviathan amongst 21st century cinema.
Matthew_Lucas
5Feb12
Cosmic truths elude the common man as a small Hungarian community lurches toward unrest and revolution seemingly brought on by the arrival of a circus featuring a prince and a dead whale. Tarr's shots always linger a bit longer than one feels like they should, but the effect is intoxicating, creating a kind of poetry of the commonplace, often bordering on surrealism. Bears comparison to Tarkovsky.
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Michael Convery
9Jan12
Unfortunately, this film was a misfire for me. I went into it having recently seen and loved Tarr's Damnation and Almanac of Fall and was expecting something similar. It contains powerful moments undeniably, but they don't connect. It felt like a confused allegory that was bloated to the point that its parts deformed each other.
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Matt Reddick
9Feb12
I saw it on dvd about 10 years ago and like you, was expecting "something"... and hated it. Didn't even finish it. I saw it in a theater last night and was overwhelmed by it. I agree that the moments don't connect and it's bloated but I believe that's intentional. Janosh/the professor are trying to make sense of things and to see beauty (a la the whale/harmonies) yet it all crumbles...
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Francisco R.
14Nov11
A sublime experience, a statement of our endless folly and the importance of those who can make us aware of our mistakes.
ILoveCourtneyHate
6Nov11
This film contains the single most startling and profound moment I have ever seen in any film. The discovery of the old man in the bathroom, has there even been (forgive my hyperbole) a more perfect and devastating metaphor for human existence?
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Lefteris Becerra
3Nov11
profundidad de campo + steadicam + ballena en un pueblo húngaro + masas enfurecidas = secuencias de alta tensión dentro de un marco deprimente, desolador