'The Turin Horse': An anecdote transforms into the story of a life ✭✭✭ 1/2

Since its premiere at the Berlin international film festival, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's latest and (so he has suggested) final feature,"The Turin Horse,"has been widely characterized as a grim slab of miserablism. Well. Maybe. It's no "Shop Around the Corner." But what about it retains the mysterious capacity to leave some of us feeling cinematically revived?

Michael Phillips

May 10, 2012