TIMELESS WINTER: László Krasznahorkai & Béla Tarr | "The Turin Horse" at Kino Muranów

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 goes to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known in Poland for "Satantango", "The Melancholy of Resistance" and "War and War". Wishing to bring Krasznahorkai's work closer to you, together with Timeless Film Festival Warsaw, we have reached for his fruitful collaboration with his friend, film director Béla Tarr. Thus, we invite you to a screening of a film by this excellent screenwriter-director duo: 🎬 "The Turin Horse" 📅 01/03 Sunday 16:00 About the film: Once again, Tarr challenges the audience. Awarded at the Berlin Festival (2011), this two-and-a-half-hour film, set in a dark atmosphere of slow decay, is a meditation on the agony of the world. The screenplay was, as usual, written by Tarr's collaborator and friend, the author of "Satantango" - László Krasznahorkai. The starting point of "The Turin Horse" is an anecdote about Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1889 bent over the fate of a horse beaten by a peasant by the roadside. The philosopher embraces the animal by the neck and, crying, falls into madness that will forever separate him from the world. Tarr and Krasznahorkai emphasize that Nietzsche was their source of inspiration. Their concept of time as a closed circle refers to him, among other things. In his work, Tarr included everything that has always made up his characteristic style: aversion to words, black-and-white imagery, slow pace. Every element here is extremely minimalist. The action takes place over six days in a dark, rural hut, and the whole forms a coherent, overwhelming vision of the end of the world. "Waiting for the end of the world in 'The Turin Horse' is a metaphysical experience, with nothing of the noisy catastrophe of Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia', which for Béla Tarr's film is a kind of extroverted reverse. Tarr's cinema is the polar opposite of the Danish provocateur's work, just as the quiet personality of the Hungarian director contrasts with the exuberant ego of the creator of 'Antichrist'. For Tarr, the story of the end of the world is an experience of death, a slow dying, a philosophical confession of faith (or, more accurately, unbelief), and by no means a cinematic trick. To be able to tell about the end is also to come to terms with the inevitable finale (Tarr insists that everything he wanted to say with cinema, he has already said; so there is no point in making more films)." We will present the film in the next edition of the Timeless cycle, this time in winter! Below is a summary of what we have prepared. The co-organizer of the screening is Timeless Film Festival Warsaw.