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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
'Time of the Wolf' is one of Michael Haneke's less-heralded masterpieces and, in my opinion one of his best. The drama unfolds amid anonymous countryside in northern France where Parisians Anne (Huppert),her husband Georges and their two children have fled an un-named disaster.
The family's world unravels in a single brutal moment and the ensuing quest for sanctuary is a compelling human drama enacted with economy and understatement even when emotions are fierce and raw.
While we recognise how thin the veneer of civilisation can be when society breaks down the narrative of Haneke's film also subtley demonstrates the collective urge to organise and for natural leaders to emerge as a fundamental human trait.
Running through the film is a narrative thread, a post-apocalyptic fable, which informs the film's shocking but powerfully humane denouement.
The film is without music and the cinematography is artful but unobtrusive allowing the audience to focus on some superbly naturalistic performances including those of Huppert and especially Anais Demoustier who plays Eva, the young teenage daughter.
The family's world unravels in a single brutal moment and the ensuing quest for sanctuary is a compelling human drama enacted with economy and understatement even when emotions are fierce and raw.
While we recognise how thin the veneer of civilisation can be when society breaks down the narrative of Haneke's film also subtley demonstrates the collective urge to organise and for natural leaders to emerge as a fundamental human trait.
Running through the film is a narrative thread, a post-apocalyptic fable, which informs the film's shocking but powerfully humane denouement.
The film is without music and the cinematography is artful but unobtrusive allowing the audience to focus on some superbly naturalistic performances including those of Huppert and especially Anais Demoustier who plays Eva, the young teenage daughter.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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After an unspecified event that has apparently cut most lines of communication except radio, a family leaves town to go to their weekend home. But the weekend home has been invaded by another family, and the father of the family is killed by the squatters, who take the family's supplies and shelter, forcing them to move on nomadically through the countryside. They meet a young boy who steals and raids corpses for whatever he can scavenge and then join a group of people waiting at a railway station for a train to take them somewhere else.
This is an end of the world story, but it eschews Mad Max style action to look at human reactions, from the mother slowly coming apart, to the daughter who fights on, to the young boy who suffers in silence. The world quickly loses its laws and its justice and life becomes squalid. And so the story feels realistic, feels like this is how things would go if the world ended. Which of course means that it is also a microcosm of our life today.
It's a dark little tale, which only shows a little hope in the human kindnesses that are done. It's rife with little biblical touches, and the sudden explosion in population suggests it is also human history potted into a little under two hours.
If you want laughs or action, you won't get it. But if you want a human drama, intended to make you think about how we live our lives, then you should be pleasantly surprised.
This is an end of the world story, but it eschews Mad Max style action to look at human reactions, from the mother slowly coming apart, to the daughter who fights on, to the young boy who suffers in silence. The world quickly loses its laws and its justice and life becomes squalid. And so the story feels realistic, feels like this is how things would go if the world ended. Which of course means that it is also a microcosm of our life today.
It's a dark little tale, which only shows a little hope in the human kindnesses that are done. It's rife with little biblical touches, and the sudden explosion in population suggests it is also human history potted into a little under two hours.
If you want laughs or action, you won't get it. But if you want a human drama, intended to make you think about how we live our lives, then you should be pleasantly surprised.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What has happened to the world? Why did they leave the City and which City? If you like a film which flows in a nice narrative style then this film is not for you. Haneke wants you to interpret his film and indeed he refuses to interpret it for you. Much of the action takes place beside a railway with a gathering of people whose world has changed. They are waiting for a train that may never arrive and rescue them. The final scenes are an landscape empty of people and animals. But hangon this is my interpretaton yours may well be better. Try it, the experience is worth it.
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