“Compelling but sometimes just outrageously weird” - Guardian ★★★★★
Renowned Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr is celebrated this summer in a new season from Curzon films: WILL HEAVEN FALL UPON US - A BÉLA TARR RETROSPECTIVE.
Béla Tarr has been described as “hopeful cynic” and “scatological mystic”, a filmmaker making dystopian fables on the fall of Communism. But his political critiques of a terminally corrupt regime refuse to be pinned down to a specific historical moment and, to the modern viewer, take on a metaphysical quality – a comment on inevitable entropy of all systems, biological, psychological, and social.
In his famed WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES - now restored in 4K for this season - an innocent young man witnesses violence break out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions: a giant whale and a mysterious man named "The Prince."
£75/year gets you: 6 free tickets, 10% ticket discount, free popcorn every visit, no booking fees, monthly exclusive screenings AND MUCH MORE.
