Time of the Wolf

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Time of the Wolf

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Time of the Wolf

Anaïs Demoustier, Beatrice Dalle, Brigitte Roüan, Daniel Duval, Florence Loiret

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  read more... ) beginning of a painful learning process, as they discover that nothing will ever be the same again.

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  • Stinger839
    August 1, 2009
    Stinger839
    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)rate what some will describe as unbearable "slowness" and over-calculation of shot composition that many accuse Haneke guilty of, but mostly because I am sick of seeing shoddily edited, overcut, and underthought movies that will always flood the market. It's tough to be a legitimate film maker, because then you actually have to meet standards, which is why I imagine so many people to be very callous in regards to assessments of Haneke's work. I am always pleased to see apocalyptic/end of society films done in this realistic tone, especially in today's flooded market of action apocalyptica and sensationalized armageddon. This film most closely reminds me of Threads with its bleak presentation and closeness to reality.

    A wonderful film, but you must be a patient fim viewer (read: not an ADD crazed artificial adrenaline junkie plucked from the teeming masses). I must confess that I dislike the ending, not because it is ambiguous; indeed I like to think I know what awaits the characters after the reel ceases to roll, and I delight in imagining the specifics of how they will deal with yet another difficult and wholly new situation. I dislike the ending not for the final shot, but for the scene right before it, and the haste with which all of the dangling storylines are abandoned for this overhanded symbolic moment which will contribute to many viewers feeling similarly abandoned and befuddled by the director's choice, but as is often the way with Haneke, that mau be indeed precisely what he wants the audience to feel. Viewed from that perspective, I can accept that scene, but I cannot accept the countless storylines which were just moments ago being adequately nourished and developed, but are now suddenly left desperately open to interpretation.
  • ceWEBrity
    June 24, 2009
    ceWEBrity
    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) the surety of aesthetic and tone belie the fact that there's really nothing to take in here. This is a worse job of creating post-apocalyptic scope than The Signal. And it's a crying shame to take a prize actress like Huppert and give her absolutely nothing to interact with outside of about four interesting scenes. Whatever, I'm a plebe and you guys can take me off your friend lists now.
  • IfeellikeGregorSamsa
    April 16, 2008
    IfeellikeGregorSamsa
    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) time around that it makes "Funny Games" look like "Fast & Furious".
  • habitualdamnation
    October 19, 2006
    habitualdamnation
    Amazing how films like this get funding.
  • Sleaze
    June 8, 2006
    Sleaze
    Prententious twaddle
  • edgewaterz
    September 6, 2009
    edgewaterz
    This is not an action film. It's about the human side of disaster and worth the effort, especially if you like foreign films.
  • qfwfq78
    July 12, 2009
    qfwfq78
    The idea was interesting, but it is a bit too slow paced and random with no real development
  • bbliumis
    January 27, 2009
    bbliumis
    Haneke is back with a very different film...
  • Phonex
    December 20, 2008
    Phonex
    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)a dimming away the world," as Cormac McCarthy writes in his echoing novel The Road?and makes allusion, in title, imagery, and theme, to Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf (1968). "The Hour of the Wolf is the time between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palpable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The Hour of the Wolf is also the hour when most children are born" (Bergman). Courtesy Palm Pictures. In French; English subtitles. 114 min.
  • sleepykiss
    December 10, 2008
    sleepykiss
    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.
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