While the Wolf’s Away, the debut from Joseph Hemsani, is a strange collision of motifs and references. With significant echoes to the work of fellow countryman Guillermo Del Toro, this coming of age-meets dark thriller at times feels like it’s going to pull of quite a magic trick, making all the disparate elements come together. Unfortunately, the film is betrayed not only by its inability to make these sweeps of tonality, it’s equally burdened by overwrought elements more pedantic than unsettling, using the cheapest of tropes to elicit reactions in an audience probably uninterested in sticking with it. Then, when it tries to bely expectation, it always goes for the gratuitous and exploitational, thus leaving room for some of the many scense that devolve into...
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- 11/13/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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