The Turin horse.
This is a film and not a movie. It's almost painful to watch. Tedious, depressing but beautiful. The movie is about a father and daughter who lived a difficult life. They work hard. They subsist on potatoes. Every day is tedious. And then things get worse. Their horse refuses to work. Their well runs dry. The wind outside refuses to end. Then they die.
In an interview the director said this was the last film of his career and that he wanted to end it with a meditation on the heaviness of life. When you are young, you take on the world and all its problems. As you grown older, you see there is no end to the problems. Finally in your old age you realize that life is heavy, and you must make peace with it.
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