The Turin Horse
A torinói ló
Synopsis
After witnessing a carriage driver whipping his horse, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ran to the scene, threw his arms around the horse and collapsed—never to recover. This is the story of what happened to the carriage driver, his family, and his steed.
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Awards & Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
2011 | 2 wins including: FIPRESCI Prize
Village Voice Film Poll
2012 | Nominee: Best Film
BFI
Tarr’s final work and the apotheosis of his long-take style, the film demonstrates better than any the way shot duration can be used to build tension. A Nietzschean (anti-)thriller about the end of the world, The Turin Horse is Tarr’s sparsest work (gone are the baroque leanings of Tarr’s excellent previous film, The Man from London (2007), based on a thriller by Georges Simenon). Pared back to essentials, almost musical in its minimalism, it is a perfect example of pure cinema.
Alex Barrett
July 21, 2016
3:AM Magazine
The utter dark at the end of the film is where the limit of comprehensibility is reached and nothing more can be said from the perspective of humanity. We would have to be more refined to go on. Béla Tarr is as refined as perhaps the human spirit can be before it gives way. And so he presents us with the moment a world passes away. It is at the point that the holy spirit of life that holds the ever changing world together nods off.
Richard Marshall
June 07, 2014
Harvard at the...
Poised precariously on elusive allegory, the fragile, devastating utopias of Tarr’s cinema are radical evocations and expansions of the cinema’s mythic imagination. With his latest and declared last film Tarr has given a profound new meta-cinematic and sculptural dimension to his art, offering the figure of the broken titular horse as a ghostly vision of Muybridge’s protocinema stallion, buffeted and bent by the cruel winds that shape the film’s desolate yet uncannily animate landscapes.
Haden Guest, Joaquim Sapinho
March 04, 2014
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