Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)

Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)
by Ingmar Bergman

Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)
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Actor: Erland Josephson, Georg Rydeberg, Gertrud Fridh, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow
Director: Ingmar Bergman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Swedish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM

Movie Reviews of Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)

Movie Review: Good film
Summary: 4 Stars

Vargtimmen (Hour Of The Wolf), a 1968 film by Ingmar Bergman, proves the nostrum that even lesser work by a great artist, surpasses the better work of lesser artists, for Bergman can get more from the prosaic, or even nothing, than almost any other director. Almost all the creepiness that a viewer feels watching this film comes from scenes, that in other circumstances, would be banal, even dull. The whole film is a series of small moments, incomplete scenes that fade out, and some blackout sketches, often framed by weird angles and compositions. Ostensibly a meditation on the trite `madness of an artist' theme, with overtones of sexual baseness and vampirism, real and psychic, the film overcomes its horror roots with superb technical screen composition, and a bevy of other cinematic trickery that shows Bergman at the top of his game, although his debt to silent German Expressionism, the Universal horror films of the 1930s, and especially the Val Lewton films of the 1940s, is heavy.... There are several other interesting things in this film, such as the ghoul played by Naima Wifstrand literally removing her face as she takes her hat off, and the fact that we, the audience, never see any of Johan's artwork. Never. He shows it to Alma, and a portrait of Veronica hangs in the castle, but we only see the characters looking at the artwork. A number of reasons could be posited, but impotence, and creative block come foremost to mind, and as posits for why Johan is suffering, they ring a bit more true than some silly guilt he felt over killing himself in self-defense from a murderous little hellion. By never seeing Johan's art, the audience never gets to see what good things Johan was capable of, so as a filmed character study on pure human frustration, recapitulated cinematically, only Martin Scorsese's brilliant The King Of Comedy tops this film, and only Stanley Kubrick's The Shining better illustrates the artistic stillicide of the self into bouts of violence, flagellation and loathing. Is Hour Of The Wolf a great film? No. But, it's very close to being so, and given its characters, points of reference, and narrative arcs, that's a hell of an accomplishment, for this film proves even mediocre Bergman results in an excellent film. If only Steven Spielberg could fail so miserably!
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The delicate, dangerous line between genius and insanity is brilliantly plumbed in this haunting film from Ingmar Bergman that's "a dazzling flow of surrealism, expressionism and full-blooded Gothic horror" (The Observer). Haunted by demons past and present, artist Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) fights a losing battle to retain his sanity and maintain his artistic prowess. His wife Alma (Liv Ullmann), desperate to help him, finds herself starting to share his hallucinations. But as Johan's mind continues to unravel, Alma is forced to choose between her love and her life.

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