Inspired by the famous anecdote in which Friedrich Nietzsche embraced a horse being whipped by a coachman in Turin, Italy, in 1889 and burst into tears, The Turin Horse follows the daily lives of a father and daughter living in an unspecified period. Described by Béla Tarr as a film about ‘the heaviness of human existence,’ The Turin Horse creates an experiential space where cinema meets music, painting, and philosophy. Conveying the monotony and exhausting nature of everyday life through long takes, an austere atmosphere, and repetitive actions, the film draws the audience towards a shared sense of apocalypse. It can also be read as the most intense expression of Tarr’s enduring intellectual engagement with Nietzsche. Declaring that he had said everything he wanted to say with this film and would rather teach than continue making films, Tarr bid farewell to cinema.