Day 2 of my Grounded Film Festival Watched a movie unlike any other- The Turin Horse, the final one from the Hungarian Auteur Bela Tarr. The premise of the movie is interesting. As the prologue to the movie says, In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cabman is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horses neck, sobbing. His neighbour takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words (Mutter, ich bin dumm.), and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, cared for by his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse. And then the movie goes into the possible life of the horse and its owner. Shot in black and white, with meditative uninterrupted shots, many of them resembling paintings by European Masters, its visual cinema at its best. A befitting finale by the maestro I remember for The Damnation. Am in two minds. To have an evening show or to ruminate on The Turin Horse.:-))
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 13:19:50 +0000
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