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HOUR OF THE WOLF. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman returns to his favorite themes of spiritual crisis and psychological trauma in a dark parable of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman returns to his favorite themes of spiritual crisis and psychological trauma in this dark parable of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. In this eerie symbolic tale of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist, Sweden's Ingmar Bergman paints one of his most effective portraits of the dark night of he soul...
...enters by dread, but sin in turn brought dread with it," wrote Kierkegaard, describing the guilt that floods the dark night of the soul. Another Scandinavian, Ingmar Bergman, plays out that quasi-religious concept by examining one soul in the blackness just before dawn-the Hour of the Wolf, "when nightmares are most palpable,' when ghosts and demons hold sway...
...viewer is more likely to be caught between boredom and sleep. Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately...