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The Turin Horse(A torinói ló)

  • Dir: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

  • Hungary, France. Germany, Switzerland, USA, 2011, Hungarian, 155mins, DCP

  • Cast: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos

This bleak vision of the end of the days, boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his final film, is a masterful culmination of his visionary cinema. Reimagining what happened to the old horse whose suffering triggered Nietzsche’s collapse, Tarr embraces a spiritually apocalyptic narrative of extraordinary minimalism, structured around one week in the gruelling lives of an aging farmer and his daughter, isolated on a windswept farm with a recalcitrant horse that refuses to eat. Evoking an eerie grip that transforms the ordinary into achingly beautiful poetry, this swan song is utterly heavenly and hellish in equal measure, presenting a vision of a world inexorably descending into final darkness.

Berlin International Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize & FIPRESCI Prize

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.