Time of the Wolf (2003)

Highly Recommended

France/Austria/Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Le temps du loup

Writer/Director: Michael Haneke

Cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Lucas Biscombe, Hakim Taleb, Olivier Gourmet, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle

Following some unspecified event (or series of events) which has led to a breakdown of social order, a young family travel to their weekend home in the countryside, where they are confronted with violence, corruption, and a bleak, daily struggle for survival, in Haneke’s masterful, grimly realistic, and painfully pessimistic post-apocalyptic drama. Iain.Stott