This great poem on the end of the world is truly a film for the ages. It can't really be described, but only lived.
The Turin Horse
2011 · 2h 35m · NOT RATED
Drama
Directed by
Béla Tarr
,
Ágnes Hranitzky
Overview
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
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Top critics, in their words
No movie could possibly live up to the monumental, forbidding grandeur of The Turin Horse's lengthy opening shot, but [Bela Tarr]... goes ahead and attempts the impossible, and comes frighteningly close to succeeding.
"The Turin Horse" is a parable, which means it's both very simple and very weighty. It's not about event and emotion, but duration and endurance.
It feels like the creation story in reverse -- a terrible, unavoidable walk into the dark.
Through Tarr's meticulous vision, these ordinary hardships take on cosmic weight; this is tedium vividly rendered.
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