The Turin Horse

MUBI

“Cut off from his religious, metaphysical, and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.”

— Eugene Ionesco

Absurdism is often connected to humor, but if ever there were a filmmaker who mined the utterly unhumorous corners of absurdism, it is Béla Tarr. (If you’re new to the concept of absurdism, you can read my …