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Premiering at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival (winning the Jury Grand Prize), The Turin Horse was hailed as “a masterpiece of the void” (J. Hoberman). It is the closing movement of Tarr’s career—a director who began with social realism ( Almanac of Fall ) and ended with cosmic nihilism. For viewers, it is punishing. For those who submit, it is absolute.

By Day 6, the world has achieved perfect entropy. No sound remains but the wind. The potatoes are gone. The horse lies motionless. Father and daughter sit opposite each other at a wooden table. Outside, the absolute dark. The.Turin.Horse.2011.LiMiTED.720p.BluRay.x264-R...

Bela Tarr’s legendary final film opens with a monologue recounting an apocryphal episode from Nietzsche’s collapse: in Turin, 1889, the philosopher witnessed a horse being whipped by its driver, threw his arms around the animal’s neck, then never spoke another sane word. What happened to the horse? Tarr imagines the answer. Premiering at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival (winning