Posts Tagged ‘Le temps du loup (2003)’

With a whimper…

‘Not with a bang, but a whimper’ – that was how poet and playwright T.S. Eliot once declared that the world would end, and there is no doubt that the most powerful cinematic evocations of Armageddon have made this concept their central tenet.

As with Michael Haneke’s Le temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf) (2003), John Hillcoat’s The Road (2009) thrusts us into the world that exists after a nameless, cataclysmic event – animal and plant life has been decimated, leaving the survivors who choose to carry on living to forage for whatever food can be found.

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Suffer the children

Directors before Michael Haneke have asked the same fundamental question that permeates his elegiac, trenchant study of darkness and light, Das weiße Band (2009) – namely, with specific reference to Germany, from whence did the affiliation with fascism rise, and how did a people turn a blind eye to the atrocities in their midst during the 20th century?

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