We follow Ohlsdorfer (JĂĄnos Derzsi) and his daughter (Erika BĂłk) in their ritualistic, punishing daily existence on the Hungarian steppe. Their lives consist of dressing, eating boiled potatoes in silence, drawing water from a stone well, and harnessing a dying horse to a cart that has nowhere left to go. Over six days, each cycle grows more brutal: the wind never stops, the horse refuses to eat, the well runs dry, the lamp refuses to light, and the Bibleâs words fade from the page. When neighborsâa spectral Romani band and a water-guzzling itinerantâpass through, they bring no hope, only more exhaustion.
The screen does not cut to black. It fades âslowly, grainily, as if the celluloid itself were giving up. No music. No resolution. Just the sound of wind across a dead plain, then nothing. âA film you donât watch so much as survive.â â Mark Kermode For fans of: Andrei Tarkovsky ( The Sacrifice ), BĂ©la Tarrâs Werckmeister Harmonies , Carlos Reygadas ( Silent Light ), Samuel Beckettâs plays, and anyone who has ever asked: What happens after the last story is told? The.Turin.Horse.2011.LiMiTED.720p.BluRay.x264-R...
By Day 6, the world has achieved perfect entropy. No sound remains but the wind. The potatoes are gone. The horse lies motionless. Father and daughter sit opposite each other at a wooden table. Outside, the absolute dark. We follow Ohlsdorfer (JĂĄnos Derzsi) and his daughter
Premiering at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival (winning the Jury Grand Prize), The Turin Horse was hailed as âa masterpiece of the voidâ (J. Hoberman). It is the closing movement of Tarrâs careerâa director who began with social realism ( Almanac of Fall ) and ended with cosmic nihilism. For viewers, it is punishing. For those who submit, it is absolute. When neighborsâa spectral Romani band and a water-guzzling