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Michael Haneke
Reviews Featuring Michael Haneke
With neither science-fiction nor action elements, the dystopian world presented by 'The Time of the Wolf', for all its disrupted services, isolation and anarchy, is otherwise uncomfortably close to our own world today, and exposes the darker side of our humanity. Confronting, austere, and with a fireside climax that represents the grimmest brand of optimism, this is a poetic vision of society stopped dead in its tracks.
An exact replica (in English) of the original, this couldve been a superior psychological thrillerand it STILL couldve made its pointbut instead, it comes off as patronizing and snobby.
Slightly (and inexplicably) better than its American shot-for-shot remake, Michael Hanekes original expose of the viewing audiences appetite for destruction is still too condescending to allow the genuinely frightening movie underneath to shine through.
Poignant, intelligent and beautifully minimalist, Hanecke pulls off another of his deep open-ended masterpieces. As to be expected though , it's none to cheery.
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