“Béla Tarr's final film is a bleak, Nietzsche-inspired vision of the end of the days” – The Guardian ★★★★
Renowned Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr is celebrated this summer in a new season from Curzon films: WILL HEAVEN FALL UPON US - A BÉLA TARR RETROSPECTIVE.
Béla Tarr has been described as “hopeful cynic” and “scatological mystic”, a filmmaker making dystopian fables on the fall of Communism. But his political critiques of a terminally corrupt regime refuse to be pinned down to a specific historical moment and, to the modern viewer, take on a metaphysical quality – a comment on inevitable entropy of all systems, biological, psychological, and social.
Taking its cue from Nietsche's famous encounter with a mistreated horse on Via Carlo Alberto, THE TURIN HORSE depicts the aftermath of this seemingly innocuous but destructively profound confrontation. Following a man and his daughter in their daily routine, a bizarre series of disturbing events slowly begin to strip life of its very essence resulting in a terrifying, all-consuming finale. Raw, compelling and emotionally devastating, Béla Tarr’s final film is a daringly original and searingly vivid work of artistically precise, philosophically rigorous filmmaking that has left audiences the world over gasping for breath. This work is also committed to Tarr's 'remodernist cinema' that seeks to capture the rhythm of life in real time and to raise a sharp awareness of the moment.
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