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Doors 7.00 PM
Film 7.30 PM
THE TURIN HORSE
dir. Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
year. 2011
country. Hungary
run-time. 146 mins
rating. 15
“Thrilling, beautiful and nearly heart-stopping...”
“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.”
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
In early 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche was said to have walked out of his home in Turin, Italy, and witnessed a carriage driver brutally lashing his stubborn horse. He stopped the scene by throwing his arms around the horse and sobbing, and in the days that followed, Nietzsche became mute and demented, cared for by his family until his death a decade later. The film follows the driver and his horse as they trudge along, through heavy winds, to the bleakest of destinies.
Béla Tarr
Born in Pécs in 1955 Béla Tarr is one of the most celebrated auteurs in cinema. Initially intending to become a philosopher Tarr was prevented from attending university by the Hungarian government so pursued his ‘hobby’ of cinema. His films, typically darkly comic and apocalyptic, are usually set against a backdrop of oppression, chaos and occupation.
Starting with 1988’s Damnation Tarr began collaborating with novelist László Krasznahorkai adapting his works Satantango (into a 7 hour epic) and The Melancholy of Resistance. One of the greatest directors of the ‘slow cinema’ movement Tarr retired from filmmaking in 2011 leaving us with a small but unforgettable body of work.
“A magnificent, towering achievement.”
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