Focus On: Bela Tarr
Mike O’Brien takes us through the work of Bela Tarr, the “most uncompromising of filmmakers” whose film THE TURIN HORSE is on release this week.
Mike O’Brien takes us through the work of Bela Tarr, the “most uncompromising of filmmakers” whose film THE TURIN HORSE is on release this week.
In 1889 Friedrich Nietzsche left his house in Turin and witnessed a man violently whipping his horse, which would not move. This image caused a mental breakdown in the philosopher, who threw himself at the neck of the creature to protect it, and afterwards fell ill until his death in 1900. What happened to the horse remains unknown, the narrator informs us at the beginning of what is allegedly Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s last film.