The Turin Horse

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  • Opened February 10, 2012 (NY)
  • 2 hr 26 min
  • NR

  • On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse’s neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses consciousness and his mind. Somewhere in the countryside, the driver of the cab lives with his daughter and the horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. Immaculately photographed in Bela Tarr’s renowned long takes, THE TURIN HORSE is the final statement from a master filmmaker. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi
  • Director: Béla Tarr
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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New York Post
| V.A. Musetto

A sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time. Read full review

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Slant Magazine
| Andrew Schenker

Béla Tarr is the cinema's greatest crafter of total environments and in The Turin Horse, working in his most restricted physical setting since 1984's Almanac of Fall, he (along with co-director Ágnes Hranitzky) dials up one of his most vividly immersive milieus. Read full review

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The New York Times
| A.O. Scott

The movie is too beautiful to be described as an ordeal, but it is sufficiently intense and unyielding that when it is over, you may feel, along with awe, a measure of relief. Which may sound like a reason to stay away, but is exactly the opposite. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Mark Feeney

The Turin Horse is in a very gray black and white. It looks the same way it feels: bleak, pure, forbidding, transfixing. Watching it, frankly, can be a bit of an ordeal. There's hardly anything in The Turin Horse you would describe as entertaining, but there is a very great deal that's beautiful and absorbing. Read full review

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A scene from "The Turin Horse."