Angela Schanelec. © Joachim GernSlowly accreting perplexed but beguiled word of mouth since its under-the-radar premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August, German director Angela Schanelec’s The Dreamed Path is an immaculately composed and constructed drama of mysteriously recurrent discontent. Beginning in an instantly enthralling series of isolated images that come together to reveal a bohemian couple hiking and busking in Greece in the early 1980s, the woman is quickly discarded by the story and we follow the man as he travels home to England after learning his mother is gravely ill. The film seems to re-form around him, his shabby destitution—he reveals himself a drug addict—his nearly blind father, and their grief over the mother. But yet again the film’s narrative proceeds to skip over time, jump in space, and divert with rubbernecked angularity; the man is left behind, the woman is picked up in...
- 9/28/2016
- MUBI
Angela Schanelec’s The Dreamed Path is so beguiling that we, the audience, have to take comfort in pointing out its one clear structural point: it’s split into two halves, each about a different couple in separate time periods. Our first is Kenneth (Thorbjörn Björnsson) and Theres (Miriam Jakob), who we see arriving on vacation in Greece in 1984; the film is quick to divert our attention to a protest about the nation’s place in the European Union, and here already feeling the weight of democracy and mythology. A young, attractive couple (easily the film’s liveliest sequence is when they busk “In the Jungle”), circumstances suddenly drive them apart when Kenneth’s parents in England fall sick and Theres gets a teaching job back in Germany.
Without too much of an indication, we cut 30 year later to Berlin, where television actress Ariane (Maren Eggert) and her anthropologist husband...
Without too much of an indication, we cut 30 year later to Berlin, where television actress Ariane (Maren Eggert) and her anthropologist husband...
- 9/13/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Stars: Lucas Till, Stephen McHattie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Merritt Patterson, Jason Momoa, Janet-Laine Green, Melanie Scrofano, Adam Butcher, Philip Maurice Hayes, Miriam McDonald | Written and Directed by David Hayter
I, like many horror fans, know that the werewolf movie is the hardest of all the horror sub-genres to get right. For every American Werewolf in London, there’s an American Werewolf in Paris… But once in a while a movie comes along that successfully captures what makes the genre great. Wolves is one such movie.
Written and directed by David Hayter, who has penned such blockbuster films as X-Men and its sequel; and the film adaptation of Watchmen, Wolves tells the story of Cayden Richards. Your typical all-American jock, Cayden goes on the run following a vicious football incident and the murder of his parents – possibly at Cayden’s hands. You see Cayden is changing and not in your typical high-school teenager way.
I, like many horror fans, know that the werewolf movie is the hardest of all the horror sub-genres to get right. For every American Werewolf in London, there’s an American Werewolf in Paris… But once in a while a movie comes along that successfully captures what makes the genre great. Wolves is one such movie.
Written and directed by David Hayter, who has penned such blockbuster films as X-Men and its sequel; and the film adaptation of Watchmen, Wolves tells the story of Cayden Richards. Your typical all-American jock, Cayden goes on the run following a vicious football incident and the murder of his parents – possibly at Cayden’s hands. You see Cayden is changing and not in your typical high-school teenager way.
- 3/30/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Reviewed by Kevin Scott
MoreHorror.com
Wolves (2014)
Written by: David Hayter
Directed by: David Hayter
Cast: Lucas Till (Cayden Richards), Stephen McHattie (John Tollerman), John Pyper-Ferguson (Wild Joe), Merritt Patterson (Angelina Timmins), Jason Momoa (Conner), Janet Laine-Green (Clara Tollerman), Melanie Scrofano (Gail Timmins), Adam Butcher (Deke), Philip Maurice Hayes (Kino)
I saw a random preview of this film at the theatre before the feature film that I was there to see. It was the climax battle scene between the two primary characters. Both were wolfed out and talking some trash. I never heard from “Wolves” again until I saw it streaming on Netflix. I reserve judgment as one should until I actually watch something. I always have a golden strand of optimism to grasp on to. When it comes to werewolf films, I’ve found myself becoming a little pessimistic. The last film that really nailed it was “Dog Soldiers...
MoreHorror.com
Wolves (2014)
Written by: David Hayter
Directed by: David Hayter
Cast: Lucas Till (Cayden Richards), Stephen McHattie (John Tollerman), John Pyper-Ferguson (Wild Joe), Merritt Patterson (Angelina Timmins), Jason Momoa (Conner), Janet Laine-Green (Clara Tollerman), Melanie Scrofano (Gail Timmins), Adam Butcher (Deke), Philip Maurice Hayes (Kino)
I saw a random preview of this film at the theatre before the feature film that I was there to see. It was the climax battle scene between the two primary characters. Both were wolfed out and talking some trash. I never heard from “Wolves” again until I saw it streaming on Netflix. I reserve judgment as one should until I actually watch something. I always have a golden strand of optimism to grasp on to. When it comes to werewolf films, I’ve found myself becoming a little pessimistic. The last film that really nailed it was “Dog Soldiers...
- 2/13/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Of the three bosses in this film, Spacey's character is by far the most realistic, says management coach Phil Hayes
The title of this film is pretty accurate. Colin Farrell plays a complete train wreck of a boss – on drugs, sleeping with prostitutes. Jennifer Aniston is a nymphomaniac dentist, and Kevin Spacey is a psychopath who likes nothing more than tormenting his employees.
Of the three, Spacey's character is by far the most realistic; you do get bosses with real psychopathic tendencies. According to Robert Hare's "psychopathy checklist", about 1% of the population are psychopaths. A good number of those seem to have made their way into management.
These are people who see their employees as victims, prey to their desires. Spacey's character, for instance, makes his employee work hideously hard for a promotion he then awards himself. I once had a boss like that: he would play power games,...
The title of this film is pretty accurate. Colin Farrell plays a complete train wreck of a boss – on drugs, sleeping with prostitutes. Jennifer Aniston is a nymphomaniac dentist, and Kevin Spacey is a psychopath who likes nothing more than tormenting his employees.
Of the three, Spacey's character is by far the most realistic; you do get bosses with real psychopathic tendencies. According to Robert Hare's "psychopathy checklist", about 1% of the population are psychopaths. A good number of those seem to have made their way into management.
These are people who see their employees as victims, prey to their desires. Spacey's character, for instance, makes his employee work hideously hard for a promotion he then awards himself. I once had a boss like that: he would play power games,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
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