first let me say i be not someone who usually cringe at the fact of have to think while see movie and i love tarkowsky movie for example and berghman be also a favorite . but this . the positive point can be sum up easily represent the photography be splendid and and the music be perfect . do it make a good movie . i use to think so and but this one be a perfect example of one that ( for me ) doesn not make it . maybe it because i be too dumb . possible and but i do not think so . tarkwosky for example also use very long shot and but what he never do be film 5 minute of the exact same image of two people walk ( and i mean just their head and because in this movie there be a lot of those shot and but sometimes it be effective ) and the general result be plainly boring and even with the intelligent undertone ( which be do in a way that and while intelligent and be above all very pedantic ) you also always feel that the director be make some of the long shot not for the aesthetic and or symbolic effect and but just to spare on budget . i be very disappointed in this film and because i really like the first 30 minute or so and but it just go on and on and without even keep the same level a in the first scene . while read the very praising comment on this page and i also get the feeling some people just try to see much more in the movie than there be to it . when a movie be slow and arty and it doesn not necessarily mean it be very profound . yes it be an allegory on musical theory place in the context of a small town and which be quite interest on itself and but it do not make a profound movie . except for people who absolutely want to make some sort of intellectual masturbation out of it and but then it not what you find in the movie and but what you find in yourself . an exercise that and in my opinion can be make much more effectively while watch stalker or solyaris than werckmeister harmony and that owe much to tarkowsky and but cab never equal it level .