Time of the Wolf
by Michael Haneke
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Actor: B?atrice Dalle, Isabelle Huppert, Maurice B?nichou, Patrice Ch?reau, Rona HartnerDirector: Michael Haneke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Movie Reviews of Time of the Wolf
Movie Review: Simmers with such a sad desperation
Summary: 3 Stars
Geez, this is a depressing film. Once again Haneke succeeds in throwing an unsettling situation in your face. This is an extremely dark humanistic tale, one that is bound to make you uncomfortable. You are immediately thrown into this survival story, where people are struggling after an unexplained apocalyptic event. Food and water are scarce. Haneke makes a pretty bold social commentary throughout, with the selfish tendencies by many of the people. This pessimistic outlook rarely offers much hope for this story.
There doesn't seem to be a great deal of individual character development or dialogue. It focuses more on the people as a group. Also, since there is no power in the area, the sets are often dark and difficult to get a bearing. You often get an upclose feel for what the people are going through.
This is not my favorite offering from Haneke, but I can still appreciate his unique style. He never attempts to lighten the mood here, he is unflinching.
Summary of Time of the Wolf
TIME OF THE WOLF reunites award-winning French actress Isabelle Huppert with director Michael Haneke after the international success of their celebrated film, The Piano Teacher. In addition, TIME OF THE WOLF features an A-list cast of France's top actors, including Olivier Gourmet (The Son, Read My Lips), Beatrice Dall (Betty Blue) and Patrice Chearau (the director of Intimacy and Those That Love Me Can Take The Train). An extremely timely and prescient piece of social commentary, TIME OF THE WOLF follows a family's difficult journey immediately after an unknown apocalyptic event. Haneke never tells us what happened, or where, or when, but instead puts us directly into the terrifying aftermath, with all of its confusion, uncertainty, and danger. As all social laws and codes are suddenly overturned, Haneke asks us to find our own way through. TIME OF THE WOLF is Haneke's most intense film and also his most hopeful.The post-apocalyptic world of Time of the Wolf is never explained, but becomes all the more hypnotic for it. A mother (Isabelle Huppert, I Heart Huckabees, 8 Femmes) struggles to keep her teenage daughter and young son alive after a social collapse of unknown causes. The family, accompanied by a semi-feral teenage boy, finds a train station where other survivors have collected in an uneasy alliance. Time of the Wolf doesn't have much of a story, but its depiction of human behavior at the breaking point is stark and convincing. The always compelling Huppert and director Michael Haneke previously worked together on The Piano Teacher; Time of the Wolf lacks that movie's psychological focus, but it creates a dark world through simple but evocative means. Also featuring Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) and Olivier Gourmet (The Son). --Bret Fetzer
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