Hour of the Wolf

Hour of the Wolf

The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

2/19/1968

Runtime

88 mins

Overview

While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Status

Released

Original Language

Swedish

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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How It Feels

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A black-and-white descent into psychological unraveling where the boundary between nightmare and waking life dissolves entirely. This is Bergman at his most hypnotic and disturbing, a study in creative torment that feels less like a story and more like living inside someone's fever dream.

Mood

Dread-soakedParanoidClaustrophobicUnsettling

Themes

ObsessionIsolationIdentityFamily

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Black and whiteFormalistLong takes

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Sexual content

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Pretty great but still has the same problem as many other old films i watched,that being it sometimes a struggle to find out what the meaning behind everything is.
This movie was great tho

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