2) Turin Horse (2011), dir. Béla Tarr
Having spent 35 years showing audiences just how awful the world can be, and just how beautiful it can look in 35mm black and white, Béla Tarr retired from filmmaking in 2011. His final film, Turin Horse, which, perhaps fittingly, heralds the end of the world, is somehow one of Tarr’s most accessible—and certainly one of his most gorgeous. You may have to shackle yourself to the couch to finish watching this miserablist masterpiece, but the opening tracking shot of the horse, the wind-blown water-fetching sequences, and the scene where the gypsies come to cause trouble make this epic a lot more than bearable; they make it transcendent.
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