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The Turin Horse

Dir: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Cast: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
155mins   2012   Hungary   15   Hungarian | German    Subtitled   

Taking its cue from Nietsche's famous encounter with a mistreated horse on Via Carlo Alberto, The Turin Horse depicts the aftermath of this seemingly innocuous but destructively profound confrontation.

Following a man and his daughter in their daily routine, a bizarre series of disturbing events slowly begin to strip life of its very essence

'The movie exerts an eerie grip, with echoes of Bresson, Bergman and Dreyer, but is utterly distinctive: a vision of a world going inexorably into a final darkness' - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

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