Re: Werckmeister harmóniák ( 2000)

[anna balint]

>btw, does anyone know this film
>http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/11/tarr.html
>?
>
>I waited in line to see it for a long while but went away just before it opened
>probably watched the irak war instead or listened to the soft pink truth 
>(thx 028!)
>...
>
>f.
>
sure, i know it.
despite the statement of the review, this movie was the first among the movies
that introduces the irrational for describing the dark behavior of the individual and 
the masses during a revolt or historic change that softened the heart of some 
Hungarian critics. Some other critics, but this time a minority, called it a weak 
homework together with the Underground of Emir Kusturica, or the One Million Dollar 
Hotel of Wim Wenders, or the  Outpost of Peter Gothar that were unanimously received 
in Hungary as a 'metaphysical kitsch'.
Werckmeister Harmonies is a serious movie, presenting some social or politic 
happening on a short run. Interesting is also  that Imre Kertesz, and his work 
presenting the gray every days of the Holocaust is a writer that was not even 
mentioned in contemporary literature handbooks, and his Nobel prize revolted the 
critics, and also my favourite movie about the everyday of the dictatorship, the 
Outpost of Gothar Peter
http://www.tvguide.com/Movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=38508 has been severly 
criticised. God forgives me, I hope that during  the premier that took the breath of 
the audience away, there were two people who could not resist to laugh loudly,
the writer of the movie, and me. We are good friends, anyway. I found the movies 
absurd, funny, and completely realistic. If one is looking for his books - for 
instance his novel the Sinistra district - they are translated to all languages. His 
name is Adam Bodor. 

greetings,
anna