Synopsis
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
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Cast
- Isabelle HuppertAnne Laurent
- Patrice ChéreauThomas Brandt
- Brigitte RoüanBéa
- Daniel DuvalGeorges Laurent
- Béatrice DalleLise Brandt
- Anaïs DemoustierEva Laurent
- Olivier GourmetKoslowski
- Maurice BénichouM. Azoulay
- Luminița GheorghiuMrs. Homolka
- Rona HartnerArina
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Haneke demonstrates profound insight into the essence of human behavior when all humility is pared away, raw panic and despair are the order of the day, and man becomes more like wolf than man. - 100
Village Voice
In today's digital bog of empty light and marketing deceptions, this is what early-millennium Euro art-film masterpieces feel like--lean, qualmish, abstracted to the point of parable but as grounded as a gravedigging. - 88
Boston Globe
Haneke has become known as a dour modern master of cinematic pain, and in this movie he scrubs civilization down to the root level. - 80
Chicago Reader
Haneke is still a masterful director, and his authority carries this well-acted and attractively shot account of a family from an unnamed city trying to survive in the sticks after an unspecified catastrophe. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
This is one of Haneke's least powerful films, although the excellent cast is interesting to watch. - 75
New York Daily News
Time of the Wolf is grounded so deeply in the reality of society gone awry that the anxiety faced by Isabelle Huppert's character as she struggles to keep her family together transfers onto the audience and never leaves. - 75
New York Post
Haneke's images are so bold and riveting and the characters' emotions are so raw that the lack of a few details doesn't matter. - 70
The New York Times
You can feel frightened and disturbed by this movie without being especially moved by it.
