The Turin Horse
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The Turin Horse
Béla Tarr,
2011
Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA | 146 minutes
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to present the theatrical premiere of New York Film Festival favorite The Turin Horse, which opens on February 10 at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and is being released by Cinema Guild. Hungary’s official submission for this year’s Academy Awards and awarded the Silver Bear and FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011, Tarr has announced that this will be his final film.
On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse’s neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words, and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, cared for by his mother and sisters. Somewhere in the countryside, the cab driver lives with his daughter and the overworked horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. The horse refuses to move, and the man and his daughter struggle through their daily schedule. Food and water grow scarce. Beggars and gypsies come to their door. The horse stops eating. Slowly, the apocalypse approaches.
Immaculately photographed in Tarr’s renowned long takes, The Turin Horse is the final statement from a master filmmaker.
