The Time of the Wolf

On the heels of his award-winning, emotionally devastating 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse. In the aftermath of an ...more

Like Funny Games, Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf begins with a comfortable bourgeois family arriving at their second home in the country, and being met by unexpected and shocking violence. But, while Funny Games was a sadistic exercise in punishing audience manipulation, Time of the Wolf is a thought-provoking allegory with a surprising degree (for Haneke) of humanity. Certainly, there are disturbing images, and the film makes no concessions to audience comfort in either its story or its ...more