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An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
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Grave, contemplative, character-led and open-ended.
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- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- FolknHellon TMDB · Aug 20268/10
*The Company of Wolves* initially looks as though it has been trapped indoors. Its forests are obviously constructed, its village feels theatrical, and even the electronic score occasionally threatens to wander in from an early-1980s *Doctor Who*. Then the film quietly makes the case that this artificiality is not something to forgive. It is the point. Rosaleen is dreaming, and Neil Jordan’s film allows the dream to build its own geography. Objects from her waking world turn up among the trees, including toys from the bedroom where she sleeps. By the end, the movement has reversed and the forest is pushing its way into the house. Reality has not simply been escaped. It has been taken apart and rebuilt into something capable of expressing fears and desires that Rosaleen does not yet have ordinary language for. Which is where the wolves become interesting. They are dangerous, certainly, but treating them merely as monsters rather misses what the film is worrying at. Grandmother’s warnings about men who are “hairy on the inside”, stories of sex, abandonment, pregnancy and violence, and the insistence on never straying from the path all turn folklore into inherited instruction about ad
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20237/10
There's a lot of "Little Red Riding Hood" to this Neil Jordan fantasy about the young "Rosaleen" (Sarah Patterson). This woman is prone to vivid dreams set many centuries earlier, where she lives happily with her parents (and without her dull as ditchwater sister) and where she is regular regaled with portentous stories by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). It's in one such dream, and whilst walking through the woods to visit her elderly relative that she encounters a handsome and enigmatic young man who wants to bet who will reach the old woman's house first! She is intrigued, but is she prepared for the true identity of her admirer? Though the story is a bit staccato at times, but this is still a rich and vividly constructed adaptation of a story that mixes romance, fable and a soupçon of horror cleverly and entertainingly - whilst subtly presenting an undercurrent of emerging sexuality. Sure, some of the effects are not what they might be and the stylised presentation doesn't always work, but the storytelling of "Granny" and some of her warnings about the path, the fruit and about a chap whose eyebrows meet in the middle are engagingly delivered by an on form, and ideally cast L
Read the whole review on TMDB - GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10
This film is pretentious. Wizard of Oz meets a horror movie to discuss the s(REDACTED)xuality of a (REDACTED FOR ARBITRARY REASONS!!!!)aged girl. This is a pretentious art house movie and one that thinks that it is vastly more intelligent than it really is. It wants to retell the Little Red Riding hood story in a semi-erotic way, but never actually achieves it. But, at least it's pretty.
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Cast
- Sarah PattersonRosaleen
- Angela LansburyGranny
- David WarnerFather
- Graham CrowdenOld Priest
- Brian GloverAmorous Boy's Father
- Kathryn PogsonYoung Bride
- Stephen ReaYoung Groom
- Tusse SilbergMother
- Micha BergeseHunstman
- Georgia SloweAlice
Crew
- Neil JordanDirector
- Neil JordanScreenplay
- Angela CarterScreenplay
- Charles PerraultWriter
- Angela CarterNovel
- Bryan LoftusDirector of Photography
- George FentonOriginal Music Composer
- Rodney HollandEditor
- Stephen WoolleyProducer
- Chris BrownProducer
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