The Turin horse closes the cycle dedicated to the creative tandem formed by one of the best filmmakers of the 21st century and the writer awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. Béla Tarr retired from cinema in 2011 with this crepuscular masterpiece co-directed alongside his wife and editor, Agnes Hranitzky. It is the alleged finale of one of the great creators of atmospheres that cinema has given in recent decades. Tarr introduces us to a transit in which we witness the end (of the existence of two people and a horse, maybe the world) through a raw filmic experience but with a hypnotic beauty. Unique, in any case.
29.04.26 WEDNESDAY / 18.00 h
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The Turin horse
The Turin horse
BÉLA TARR, AGNES HRANITZKY. Hungary, Germany, France, Swiss, USA. 2011. VOS VALENCIA. B/N. 146′. DCP.
Int. János Derzsi, Erika Book, Miháli Kormos, Ricci.
He 3 of January of 1889, and Tori, Friedrich Nietzsche witnesses the abuse inflicted by a carter on his exhausted horse. Nietzsche wraps his arms around the horse's neck, she begins to cry and loses consciousness and speaks until the end of her days. In a pre-apocalyptic atmosphere, we are shown the life of the coachman, of his daughter and the old horse.
