A rural farmer somewhere in Hungary is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
In competition at Berlin 2011 the Bela Tarr entry "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Horse) -- is arguably the most bleak, depressing and boring film ever made. It's all about two miserable people living in a miserable life in a miserable hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere and trying to get an even more miserable horse to pull a miserable wagon --all shot in miserable grimy black and grey closeups to add to the feeling of deathly claustrophobia and terminal despair. Tarr has made some interesting slow moving b/w films in the past but with this dead horse he seems to be interested only in testing the patience of even his most devoted admirers by giving them the worst of his bag of tricks in lethal doses. Stood it for maybe 25 minutes before I realized it was driving me bats and then quickly ankled my way out. Somebody says that with this film Bela has said all he has to say and will turn to other means of earning a living. Let's hope so. Bottom Line: The bleakest, depressingest and most boring film ever made. Thoroughly Abominable.
In competition at Berlin 2011 the Bela Tarr entry "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Horse) -- is arguably the most bleak, depressing and boring film ever made. It's all about two miserable people living in a miserable life in a miserable hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere and trying to get an even more miserable horse to pull a miserable wagon --all shot in miserable grimy black and grey closeups to add to the feeling of deathly claustrophobia and terminal despair. Tarr has made some interesting slow moving b/w films in the past but with this dead horse he seems to be interested only in testing the patience of even his most devoted admirers by giving them the worst of his bag of tricks in lethal doses. Stood it for maybe 25 minutes before I realized it was driving me bats and then quickly ankled my way out. Somebody says that with this film Bela has said all he has to say and will turn to other means of earning a living. Let's hope so. Bottom Line: The bleakest, depressingest and most boring film ever made. Thoroughly Abominable.