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The Turin Horse / A torinói ló
Hungary, France, Switzerland and Germany / 2011 / 154 min.
Director: TARR Béla
[Introduction]
The protagonist is a middle-aged man who lives in an isolated home amid a desolate wasteland with his daughter and an aged horse. Apart from the occasional visitors, the film depicts their every day life as fairly uneventful. Finally, the man decides to vacate their home with his daughter and horse. However, their journey becomes arduous due to fierce, gale winds.... This masterpiece will overpower the viewer as it searches for the boundaries of the particular aesthetic style representative of TARR Béla: exquisite monochrome cinematography, marvelously long takes, and a lack of expository dialogue among others. Fred KELEMEN, himself an active director of such films as "Fallen," serves as cinematographer as he did on the previous film. The title is said to be a factual anecdote in which philosopher Friedrich NIETZSCHE, visiting Turin in 1889, witnesses a coachman violently flogging a horse on the street and intercedes to stop it whereupon he loses his mind. Screened at this year's Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear (Jury Grand Prize) and FIPRESCI awards.





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