2021 · drama
Wolf
Directed by Nathalie Biancheri1h 40m2021
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic Wildcat, with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation.
Our read: Wolf (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- intimate
Watching Wolf tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Wolf feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want raw identity-as-animal allegory with committed George MacKay physicality.”
Skip it tonight — You need coherent metaphor; this asylum fable often frustrates more than it lands.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Wolf, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →