A favorite of mine. There are few movies that make one swell with emotion, for me they were Schindler's List and Bambi when i was younger. I now add this film alongside them.

Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr.

At once horrifically bleak and breathtakingly beautiful, the film - shot in black and white and composed of only thirty-nine languidly paced shots - describes the aimlessness and anomie of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the fascist influence of a sinister traveling circus lugging the immense body of a whale in its tow. A young man named Janos tries to keep order in the increasingly restless town even as he begins to lose his faith in the unnatural and disordered universe from which God Himself seems to have disappeared.

The title refers to the baroque musical theorist Andreas Werckmeister. György Eszter, a major character in the film, gives a monologue propounding a theory that Werckmeister's harmonic principles are responsible for aesthetic and philosophical problems in all music since, which need to be undone by a new theory of tuning and harmony.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werckmeister_Harmonies

The Arts and Faith Top100 Selection - http://artsandfaith.com/t100/

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never saw this one. i'll have to check it out

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