Anaïs Demoustier, Beatrice Dalle, Brigitte Roüan
IImmediately before a global cataclysm, Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home in the countryside only to find it is occupied by a group of complete strangers. This confrontation is just the...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 14, 2004
Stats: 218 reviews
Of course it is bleak, slow, and ambiguous - it's Michael Haneke!
I did indeed like this one, though only having seen Funny Games, Funny Games, and this, I do believe Haneke to be obsessed with the themes of home invasion and "bourgeois" people forced into humility.
I CAN tole...( read more)
Sorry, I couldn't really handle this one. My patience imploded about halfway in. I may try and finish it later in the week...or I may not and I'll never get around to it again.
Easily Haneke's flattest directing (Funny Games, for all my problems with it, was strikingly filmed);...( read more)
Note: Goddammit, I really want my 108 minutes back. While it started very well, atmosphere isn't everything and even presence of one of the greatest actresses of the world, Isabelle Huppert, couldn't compensate shallowness of the script. Haneke's directing is so heavy-handed this...( read more)
This is not an action film. It's about the human side of disaster and worth the effort, especially if you like foreign films.
The idea was interesting, but it is a bit too slow paced and random with no real development
In Haneke's darkest fable?a vision of apocalypse, or a harrowing glimpse of the world beyond our protected borders?humanity stands at the crossroads of annihilation and salvation. Haneke hews to a palette of sputtering flame, gunmetal, and ash?like "the onset of some cold glaucom...( read more)
I really dont care for "apocalyptic" flicks, but this one was diff. It shook me up a little. Simple story, but interesting. Luv IH always.
One of the most depressing, if not agonizing, movies I've ever seen. full review
Time of the Wolf induces a hunger for consolation, and forces you to scavenge for scraps. full review
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