After more than two decades of increasingly enigmatic, but unique presence on the world cinematic stage with nine fiction films, one documentary, one TV production (Macbeth), and four shorts, the Hungarian director Béla Tarr has unequivocally declared his latest work, The Turin Horse (A torinói ló, 2011, Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland, USA) to be his last. And indeed, as it will be seen from the conclusion to this study, The Turin Horse is Tarr’s programmatic piece in reverse since it throws in high relief the overarching themes of his films, especially those of labor and its relation to power, religion, society, and personal freedom.