Bergman shakes his head and intuitive horrors cascade out, all he has to do is collect image after fulminating image
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann as his loving wife Alma,... This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann as his loving wife Alma, who eventually experiences the same nightmarish delusions. A local aristocrat (Erland Josephson) and his clan, who reside in a forbidding castle and appear to possess supernatural powers, might have a hand in Johan's undoing. The film is told mostly in retrospect after Johan has disappeared, leaving behind only a diary from which his mental and emotional decline (perhaps an allegory on the difficulties of the creative process, one of Bergman's favorite themes) can be reconstructed. Borrowing stylistic elements from classic Hollywood horror movies and occasionally featuring graphic material (one scene prompted a contemporary reviewer to recommend averting one's eyes from the screen), this unusual (black-and-white) film also retains the psychological astuteness and technical finesse that earned Bergman worldwide critical acclaim and his status as Sweden's premier filmmaker. [More]
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max Von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max Von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, Gudrun Brost
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reviews for Hour of the Wolf
This Bergman discourse on the nature of art and the artist's relation to society is shrouded in the trappings of gothic horror.
Hour of the Wolf is not one of Bergman's great films but it is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in movies not to see it.
If we allow the images to slip past the gates of logic and enter the deeper levels of our mind, and if we accept Bergman's horror story instead of questioning it, Hour of the Wolf works magnificently.
A must for fans of horror and of Bergman. So good it makes you wish he had dabbled in the genre that bit more often.
In Hour of the Wolf Bergman asserts the impossible nature of relationships, the ultimate inability of two people to live together without destroying one another.
This 1967 effort is one of Bergman's most outlandish, with its pack of ghouls and its heavy suggestions of exhibitionism, necrophilia, and homosexuality -- a magnificent failure.
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