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The Turin Horse

2011 · 2h 35m · NOT RATED Drama
Directed by Béla Tarr , Ágnes Hranitzky

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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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Fresh

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.

J. Hoberman, ARTINFO.com
Fresh

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.

Mike D'Angelo, L.A. Weekly
Fresh

"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.

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh

It feels like the creation story in reverse -- a terrible, unavoidable walk into the dark.

Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh

Through Tarr's meticulous vision, these ordinary hardships take on cosmic weight; this is tedium vividly rendered.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Chicago Reader

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