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Le Temps
du Loup (2003)
DIRECTOR: Michael Haneke
CAST: Béatrice Dalle; Patrice Chéreau; Olivier Gourmet; Rona Hartner; Maurice Bénichou;
SYNOPSIS
Anne, George and their children Eva and Ben, arrive
in their country house, isolated in the heights of a forest. A man, accompanied
by a woman and a little child, meet them and play with a shotgun. The gun blows
off, George is killed.
Anne and her children set out to flee. On the
way to the nearest village, they encounter fear and violence, caused by lacks
of supply. The fights happen every day. Guided by a little boy, the family
arrive in a railway station where
many people are already constrained. There, in promiscuity and conflict atmosphere,
people are waiting for a train which will carry them to a better place. They
exchange their last left goods for little food or water, trying to protect
young and weak people from violence and the others.
NOTE
The script was written long time
but failed to raise enough funding to make it. After the success
of The Piano Teacher, Gemni
decided to invest Haneke's next film. The film was started
in April, 2002. - FORUM
QUOTE
Isaelle
Huppert
"
Sao Paulo Ran to See Isabelle
Huppert" by Sergio Roveri, Brazil
2003. 02.25
I am very sluggish, for me it is easier to interpret a personage who hides than
discloses. It was very easy to play "La Pianiste", woman in full psychological
aspects. Difficult to play the character in my last film, Le Temps des Loups,
in which I had to deal with real feelings, like hungry, cold,
fear and fatigue
AWARD
Honor
presentation at Cannes, May 20, 2003
SITGES 2003 Awards - Best Screenplay for Michael Haneke and Prix of Critics for the film, December 6, 2003
TRIVIA
Because Patrice Chereau, who starred in the film, became the president of Jury at Cannes later on, the film was only premiered at Cannes out of the official competition.
Before Le Temps du Loup, Haneke's films "Code Unknow" and "The Piano Teacher" were produced by MK2 - Marin Karmitz - France's Largest Independent Film Production Company. Either of them has big personality and doesn't want to compromise each other. Haneke ended up starting new relationship with Gemni - another large independent film production company in France.
REVIEW
Cannes/Huppert-Chereau:
le cinema selon Haneke, Le Figero, Mai 20, 2003 at Cannes Film Festival
"Most
ambitious, less disturbing", Telerama, Mai 20, 2003 at Cannes
"L'apocalypse
selon Michael Haneke", Le Monde, Mai 21, 2003 at Cannes
"Mon film
est
un contre-projet au cinema hollywoodien", Le Monde, Mai 21,
2003
"Michael Haneke is
back
to frighten you", International Herald Tribune, May 21, 2003
"Temps
de ténèbres", Liberation, Mai 21, 2003
"Quand Isabelle
Huppert fatigue", Le Libre, Mai 22, 2003
"Huppert,
louve
de Haneke", Le Soir, Mai 22, 2003
There
goes the neighbourhood, Guardian Unlimited, Oct.6, 2003
Good
things are sometimes painful, BBCi Film, October 6, 2003
Entretien avec Isabelle Huppert par Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde, Oct 8, 2003
Au seuil des tenebres, le vertige de l'inhumanite, Le Monde, Oct 8, 2003
Dans
la jungle du monde,
Lequitidienducinema, Oct. 8, 2003
Un
Monde Post-apocalyptique, NovaScoop.com, Oct. 8, 2003
Review
at Trash-Times, Oct.8, 2003
"Traditional
civilisation has collapsed", BBCi Film, October 12, 2003
"Isabelle Huppert - Still Hungry
Like the Wolf", Times, Oct. 16, 2003
The Time of the
Wolf, RTE Entertainment, Oct. 17, 2003
The Time of the Wolf, Film Threat, Oct. 17, 2003
Reivew at FilmIreland, Oct. 2003,
The Time of Wolf by Chris
Wegand, Film Threat, October 17, 2003
It's
not the end of the world, but it's close, The Guardian Unlimited, Oct. 19,
2003
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