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Turin Horse: Berlin Review

12:43 PM PST 2/15/2011 by Ray Bennett

Hungarian director Bela Tarr's sleepy drama, which is in competition at Berlin, is long and repetitive in its telling of a harsh way of life.

BERLIN – Hungarian director Bela Tarr’s somnolent drama Turin Horse tells of an ageing father and his grown daughter who lead lives of relentless tedium in a shabby dwelling on a bleak, windswept plain. Towards the end of the film, they appear to lose the will to live. They are not alone. 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. 

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