Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray Excerpts from an interview with

Excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson

supervised by cinematographer Lajos Koltai and approved by director Márta Mészáros

and a founding work of the Kazakh New Wave

PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias

modern niece—sweeps over their household

Werckmeister Harmonies Format:Blu Ray Excerpts from an interview withThis 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