The Turin Horse Reviews and Ratings


  • hipsterfilmreviews
    March 10, 2012
    hipsterfilmreviews
    I call emperor's got no clothes. This is uneventful and unbearable to watch. "Artsy" appears to be another word for "this looks like complete shit, but everyone else is still pretending that this was momentous, so I guess I'll play along". Ironically, the costuming looks like it'... read mores worth a closer look, had they factored lighting into the budget.

    The monotonous dirge is a really suitable soundtrack.
  • homoelectrologious
    February 9, 2012
    homoelectrologious
    The sound of wind still whistling in my ears. Film that speaks straight into the heart .
  • grundler
    January 17, 2012
    grundler
    Exhausting but Worth it
  • citawijaya
    January 1, 2012
    citawijaya
    It has some beautiful scenes but it's just too artsy for me.
  • affisch
    November 28, 2011
    affisch
    most depressing film ever?
  • logan360x
    November 20, 2011
    logan360x
    opens with the story of the turin horse over a black screen, followed with "but of the horse we no nothing", what follows is what Bresson did for donkeys and jesus Tar does for horses and existential despair. The owners of the horse live in a barren field with only dead tree dott... read moreing the landscape, the spitting image of Smashing Pumpkins group photo. their lives consist of eating potatoes, dressing, undressing, and laying in bed silently. the horse given up on life refuses to eat or move. word comes first from a drunk, that the world is ending. a constant wind never lets up. and it goes on for 2 and half hour like that largely in silence and mostly darkness, til even the lights begin to die. this was probably the bleakest film Ive ever see, but tarr was friendly enough. "remember the sun is still shining outside" was the first thing he said. i talked to him a little in the cigarette area outside the theater, he just appeared out of nowhere looking for an ashtray, nice fella. anyway this was good, painterly, but too tedious, I get that was part of the point, "life sucks and then we all quietly fade into darkness", but I don't feel that to be true. That's what Tarr suggested we do with the film "do not analyze, see with your eyes, and feel with your heart", and life is more than potatoes and silence, even if it is all meaningless and doomed, Melancholia enforces this and was full of life in ways this film was full of nothingness. But for films about nothingness, monotony, and pointless struggle this is the best.
  • larukucafe
    March 26, 2011
    larukucafe
    I can only say Bela Tarr's movies are really not my cup of tea... I can't sustain my attention when the pace of the movie is so painfully slow!!!!

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