Do you remember, Milan Kundera wrote this book about the lightness of the being? We just wanted to show you the heaviness of the being. You are doing always the same thing every day, but every day is a little bit different, and the life is just getting weaker and weaker, and, by the end, disappears. This is what this movie shows you.

"'The Turin Horse' is that kind of movie after which it is hard to make the next one," Mr. Krasznahorkai wrote in an e-mail. "Right after the apocalypse? One more? About the apocalypse? There is only one of it."

From a profile of Bela Tarr