Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Hitchcoc This film is so dark. As we watch this farmer and his daughter trying to stay alive by eating what appear to be potatoes or some sort of tubers, making enough from using an old horse to haul for others, one gets tired. This is a bit apocalyptic in that there seems to be nothing to strive for other than to get through another day. There is a danger around them but we don't know what most of the world is doing. One thing we notice right away is that there are no smiles--no joy of any kind. These are humans and like many animals; they could be found dead one day and it would be a fact of life and the rest of the world would go on. And to add a kicker, that horse is getting older and older.

laban christ Girl:What it is Papa? Father:I don't know.. It is my first Bela Tarr movie and I don't think that words can help me to write a review on 'The Turin Horse' and it is my first review. I have been watching movies since my childhood, reading literature and philosophy in order to understand human condition but the visual and sound sensation I have had with 'The Turin Horse' is matchless. There is a modern novel in which a girl commits suicide because she think that she had to brush her teeth everyday with the same brush. Bela Tarr's characters are eating raw potatoes everyday,fortunately they don't commit suicide but what is the point in living? Bela will compel you to think about it. Father: Eat. we have to... To be very honest 'The Turin Horse' is the most powerful work of cinematic art I've ever came across, it is not social but ontological rather cosmological. What it is to be human? Want to know? Go and watch it, the 'heaviness of human existence' to put it in Bela's words.

Lou Cyan I am surprised I did finish this film, there were many times when I wanted it to end. For me, this film had no point whatsoever, I read positive reviews after watching it because I couldn't believe how high it was rated. Now, I understand even though I didn't enjoy it in the least. There wasn't a single action during 2 and a half hour ! And when something did happen ( for example, a group of gypsies or something like that ) , it was right away forgotten and they were back at eating potatoes, dressing up, fetching water, not talking. It was painfully dull, it was worse that routine !! Maybe that was the all point, portraying what a dull insignificant life most people have and if so, why would you like that ? Why would you like to be reminded of your own insignificance ? Why watching some girl cleaning up stables, dressing up her father, doing boring stuff is fascinating to watch ? Persons which have liked this film are lucky, because they didn't waste two and a half hour watching this.

odarden Ornamented with elements of Bresson's Balthazaar, Tarkovsky's Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and Beckett's Waiting for Godot, this almost unbearably beautiful film stands as Tarr's simplest and most enigmatic. Here, the wind is music and Tarr's familiar film score from Mihály Víg becomes a kind of sweet pain killer. Deadly serious, but not without great suspense, The Turin Horse opens a window to the decay of a world that knew better days. The mother is gone, the other horse has died (or maybe was stolen), the father's right arm that built this magnificent stone barn and house has expired, the bird cage is empty. And it is sad, this last film from Bela Tarr. It's like death: mine, yours, the world's, the cinema's. Without light, how can those images be projected? But, what are the daughter and father watching but a movie? Theirs is a kind of patience, but like the great Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa said, it is perhaps a patience without wisdom, without clarity in which, after time, people crack. Perhaps the characters are caught in a net of forbearance. Does the camera eye free us? Are we then able to transform forbearance into intelligent patience? Should we watch ourselves watching movies? And at the end, is the light of our minds enough? Thank you, Bela Tarr, for sharing your vision of life with us.