Release Date: February 10th, 2012
DVD Release Date: July 17th, 2012
Not Yet Rated|2 hr 26 min
Plot Summary
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Cast: János Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihály Kormos
Director: Béla Tarr , Ágnes Hranitzky
Genres: Drama
Distributors: Cinema Guild
The Turin Horse is an absolute vision, masterly and enveloping in a way that less personal, more conventional movies are not. The film doesn't seduce; it commands. show more
By this time, cinematographer Fred Kelemen's mostly stationary camera has revealed about all there is to see in a fine array of textures in such things as the wooden table, the rough floors, the walls of stone, the ropes on the horse and the skin on the boiled potatoes. That does not, however, make up for the almost complete lack of information about the two characters, and so it is easy to become indifferent to their fate, whatever it is. show more
A sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time. show more
