Béla Tarr

Known for: Sátántangó (1994), The Turin Horse (2011)

Béla Tarr moved from an early social realist style to an extreme long-take cinema that reduced narrative to almost nothing in favor of sustained duration and physical sensation. Sátántangó (1994) runs more than seven hours; The Turin Horse (2011), which he announced as his final film, follows two people and a horse over six days in 30 long takes. His collaboration with the writer László Krasznahorkai has produced some of the most discussed works of European cinema of the past three decades.