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The Turin Horse

A Torinói ló (The Turin Horse)

2011

Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos

7.2

4,816

Drama Year 1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make him bed-ridden and speechless for the next eleven years until his death. But whatever did happen to the horse? This film, which is Tarr's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The movie exerts an eerie grip, with echoes of Bresson, Bergman and Dreyer, but is utterly distinctive: a vision of a world going inexorably into a final darkness (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[An example] of how a work that seems built on the denial of pleasure can, through formal discipline, passionate integrity and terrifying seriousness, produce an experience of exaltation."	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Chicago Reader	"Through Tarr's meticulous vision, these ordinary hardships take on cosmic weight; this is tedium vividly rendered (...) An intense and occasionally riveting experience."	POS
United States	Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"Long, slow and repetitive film essay (...) Fans of Tarr’s somber and sedate films will know what they are in for and will no doubt find the time well spent"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[It] remains astonishingly powerful on its own uncompromising terms (...) 'The Turin Horse' has a burnished beauty that’s awe-inspiring"	POS
United States	Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times	"Auteurist Bela Tarr directs one of his weaker efforts, despite a catchy intro (...) Don't blame the horse."	NEG
United States	Christopher Bell IndieWire	"It’s without a doubt a haunting picture that’ll burn into your conscious. Quite unforgettable, whether you fancy it or not."	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"A film that drills into the core of your soul (...) Tarr works in mesmerising harmony with his cinematographer Fred Kelemen (...) and composer Mihály Vig (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Independent	"The narrative content is so slender that it's barely even an anecdote, yet the film has the disturbing resonance of some ancient imponderable fable (...) The images have a terrible, chill beauty"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"It may be bleak, but this lingers in the mind long after you've seen it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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