Time of the Wolf (2003)
Directed by Michael Haneke
A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.
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The film’s provocative conceit and the cold-blooded precision of its violence recall Michael Haneke, particularly Funny Games and Time Of The Wolf, but Lanthimos has a prankish sense of humor, and favors an offhand absurdity that aligns him closer to Luis Buñuel.
Someone like Michael Haneke would have no trouble embracing this material’s uncompromising dreariness—in fact, Haneke already did his own post-apocalyptic film in Time Of The Wolf—but Hillcoat allows the hard-won emotion of the final scene to veer decisively into sentimentality.
Films like The Road—and its superior predecessor, Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf—can prompt us to examine our faith, to question how it would hold up during such suffering.
Cuarn dazzles technically, but his livewire virtuosity (pillaged from Gillo Pontecorvo and Haneke's Time of the Wolf ) formulates its own showy tyranny -- new life can momentarily hush gunfire, but only after it's been tracked through the bowels of a decimated edifice in a long, handheld bout of scuttling that expresses not so much immediacy as directorial vanity.
Try last year’s apocalypse movie — Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf.
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Those who've experienced the piercing disturbances of Haneke's recent work, particularly ''Code Unknown" and the cruelly overlooked apocalypse parable ''Time of the Wolf," know that the provocations here will reach into the political.
The filmmaker, who only last year provided a devastating portrait of post-apocalyptic life in "Time of the Wolf," knowingly plays with the unease of both his protagonists and his audience.