Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray The first film in Abbas

The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime

Discussion of the film from 2004 between film critics Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni

PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias

Excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson

and a founding work of the Kazakh New Wave

Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray The first film in AbbasThis mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by Lszl Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circuscomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue like figure known as the Princearrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably