A torinói ló 2011

J. Hoberman, ARTINFO.com: This great poem on the end of the world is truly a film for the ages. It can't really be described, but only lived. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Displays Mr. Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Alas, there's some risibly bad stuff here, too -- mainly contentwise -- that even Tarr's passionate fans will balk at. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Astonishingly powerful on its own uncompromising terms. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: "The Turin Horse" is a parable, which means it's both very simple and very weighty. It's not about event and emotion, but duration and endurance. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Chicago Reader: Through Tarr's meticulous vision, these ordinary hardships take on cosmic weight; this is tedium vividly rendered. Read more

Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter: Monotonous and repetitive, the black-and-white production runs 146 very long minutes as the two go about their mind-numbing daily routines accompanied by a sonorous musical dirge that is as relentless as the ferocious winds outside. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Starkly beautiful and exceedingly demanding, "The Turin Horse," which Hungarian master Bela Tarr has said will be his last film, is both easy and impossible to define. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, L.A. Weekly: No movie could possibly live up to the monumental, forbidding grandeur of The Turin Horse's lengthy opening shot, but [Bela Tarr]... goes ahead and attempts the impossible, and comes frighteningly close to succeeding. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Tarr turns the particular universal; this family's subsistence reflects ordeals faced daily throughout the world, even today... Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: The Turin Horse is an absolute vision, masterly and enveloping in a way that less personal, more conventional movies are not. The film doesn't seduce; it commands. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: If ... one has a need to cleanse their palate of even indie fare that seems familiar and cookie-cutter, this immersive, contemplative, black-and-white film may, in its way, be invigorating. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: A sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Watching them is something like visiting the world's most fantastic art museum and taking an ice-cold shower, both at the same time. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: It feels like the creation story in reverse -- a terrible, unavoidable walk into the dark. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: The answers are a mystery, but no detail, however mundane, is accidental in Tarr's meticulously constructed allegory. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Tarr, who is only 56, claims The Turin Horse as his last film, and it's hard to imagine a follow-up. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: An intentionally monotonous look at the lives of a farmer and his daughter. Strange events signal the end is nigh, but it approaches at the pace of a lethargic inchworm. Read more