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The Turin Horse

Cast

János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi View All


Crew

Béla Tarr (Screenplay), Béla Tarr (Director), László Krasznahorkai (Screenplay) View All

Release: Feb. 15th, 2011
Runtime: 2 hours, 35 minutes
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
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ScarletLion
Some may wonder why anyone would sit through nearly 3 hours of slow zooms, pans and leaves blowing, and barely a plot - but that is Tarr's philosophical nature.
Takoma11
In a bleak, wind-swept landscape, a father (Jnos Derzsi) and his daughter (Erika Bk) live alone in a house, along with a horse who pulls the father's cart.
KeyserCorleone
This spells almost certain doom for the sanity of our main man, as is to be expected in movies like this after movies like Jeanne Dielman came out (I suppose now I have two primary slow cinema movies to compare when watching other slow cinema pieces).


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