(LE TEMPS DU LOUP)

Anne (Isabelle Huppert) has travelled with her husband Georges and their children to their country home, seeking refuge from an unspecified catastrophe. When they arrive, they find the house already occupied by menacing strangers. Following a violent incident, Anne and her children are forced to wander through a desolate and lawless landscape. They encounter other survivors gathered at a deserted station, waiting for a train that may never come. Haneke offers no clear explanation of the catastrophe, focusing instead on how people behave in a world stripped of structure, revealing the limits of compassion, the persistence of hierarchy, and the existential isolation of human beings.

Notes by David O’Mahony.

Screening as part of Complicit: The Films of Michael Haneke.