Time of the Wolf
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1h 49m
Directed by Michael Haneke | 108 mins | 2003
A family flees to the countryside because of an unexplained crisis in the world and finds that societal breakdown is well underway. Haneke’s lacerating, under-seen portrayal of civilization collapse was a bellwether for the cinema’s all-consuming 21st-century obsession with dystopia, but its splintering narrative is rooted firmly in Haneke’s obsessions with the fragility of the family unit.
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