The Turin Horse: Press reviews

'A magnificent, towering achievement.'

'film is thrilling, beautiful and nearly heart-stopping'

'it is a film that drills into the core of your soul.'

'If you can bear it, you may well find this film riveting, equipped with imagery you can't get out of your mind. '

'The movie exerts an eerie grip, with echoes of Bresson, Bergman and Dreyer, but is utterly distinctive: a vision of a world going inexorably into a final darkness.'

'The Hungarian auteur's gnomic, slow-moving storytelling style and grim absurdism demand patience but the formal mastery here is astounding.'

'This is cinema so spare and silent it's on the verge of being Trappist cinema – and that is eloquence indeed.'

'Tarr risks self-parody with recurring scenes of the pair tucking into scalding potatoes, but if you've got the stomach for it this is an intoxicating vision of life at the end of its tether.'

'The movie is too beautiful to be described as an ordeal, but it is sufficiently intense and unyielding that when it is over, you may feel, along with awe, a measure of relief'

'At the end, however, you feel – like the wedding guest buttonholed by the Ancient Mariner – that you've had an experience.'