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Time Of The Wolf [DVD] [2003]

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Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Ana�s Demoustier, B�atrice Dalle, Patrice Ch�reau, Hakim Taleb
Directors: Michael Haneke
Writers: Michael Haneke
Producers: Margaret M�n�goz, Michael Katz, Michael Weber, Veit Heiduschka
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Language French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Artificial Eye
DVD Release Date: 24 May 2004
Run Time: 113 minutes

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0001IMCT8
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,971 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Michael Haneke's TIME OF THE WOLF is an emotionally riveting film that takes place in post-apocalyptic rural France. Keeping the film at a constantly tense level even though the characters are for the most part calm and logical, Haneke has mastered the art of controlling his audience. Viewers will find it hard to look away from the screen--or even move in their seats--as they sit frozen by the powerful performances of Isabelle Huppert and Anais Demoustier. The story follows a family of four who load up their supplies and retreat from Paris after a disaster leaves the water contaminated and livestock sickened, causing the government to put sanctions of food and fuel. Arriving at their country house, the family is attacked, their patriarch is murdered, and their supplies are stolen, leaving Anne (Huppert), Eva (Demoustier) and the fragile young Ben (Lucas Biscombe) to wander the bleak countryside in a fervent search for justice and protection. Settling into a makeshift commune in a railroad station, the threesome struggle to make it through each day among chaos, prostitution and rape, competitive barter for food and water, and long episodes of their companions screaming or sobbing. Depressing and frightening, yet totally compelling, TIME OF THE WOLF is a myth with epic feeling. Most of the action takes place off-screen as the protagonists react, and this method of storytelling infuses the film with natural suspense. The result is one great big deep and eerie shiver.

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5.0 out of 5 stars After the end of the world, 6 Sep 2008

By	S. Bentley "stuarthoratiobentley" (North Yorkshire) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Time to learn to interpret, 10 Mar 2008

By	J. P. Perkins "jperkins73" (Sheffield) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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3.0 out of 5 stars An engaging movie, 7 Feb 2007

By	Rossella Spoto "rossella78" (london, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Some parts are strong, at the very beginning. A detail at the beginning it's the only thing which puzzled me all the way up to the end: when and where is everything happening? France, Poland, Northern Africa, countryside, the ville...which ville?
I guess that was done on purpose - removing any spatial-temporal coordinate, to concentrate on the drama and tragedy lived and told...
after all, it is always the same history and human tragedy repeating in time and space...a cyclical image finally immortalized by the view of a running train, from inside.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fable for a post-apocalyptic world
'Time of the Wolf' is one of Michael Haneke's less-heralded masterpieces and, in my opinion one of his best. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Dr. P. J. Edwards

3.0 out of 5 stars Apocalyptic times
Haneke depicts an a post-Apocalyptic France. He conceals the cause and gives no answers. This is a mute end of world aftermath. Read more

Published 6 months ago by technoguy

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of the Time
Refugees from an unspecified crisis in an unnamed country wait for a train that may or may not arrive to take them who knows where. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Mulwharchar

5.0 out of 5 stars a catastrophe for the civilisation or a satire on false security?
The lush greens of the luscious french rural landscape are poised with the bonfires of the survivors who have escaped an apocalaypse which might represent our pointless existence... Read more

Published 16 months ago by Dr. U. L. Khawaja

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