Wolf

Wolf

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.

  • Released: 2021-12-03
  • Runtime: 98 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: George MacKay, Lily-Rose Depp, Paddy Considine, Fionn O'Shea, Lola Petticrew, Senan Jennings, Darragh Shannon, Elisa Fionuir, Amy Macken, Helen Behan, Shelley Atkinson
  • Director: Nathalie Biancheri
 Comments
  • martimusross - 14 April 2024
    Terrible!
    Wolf

    I don't think I have ever seen a movie about species dysphoria, and here it is, it became clear that the treatment is the same for any other form of dysphoria.

    We had scene after scene examining different treatment methods within a mental institution on various patients at different stages of recovery.

    I'm not sure I learned anything apart from witnessing the tragedy and having a weird subject for a movie does not make a good in of itself.

    It was glacially slow and how George MacKay kept a straight face or agreed to do this movie it beyond me.

    Of course the elephant in the room was self-determination, is was clear here, you could not self-determine as a squirrel as that was deemed to be wrong thinking, clearly this was a pop at current trends of self-determination.

    I was bored from the start and I laughed out loud several times when I am sure I wasn't meant to, at best this was a weak 3 outta 10, it was truly dreadful!
  • Leofwine_draca - 3 November 2022
    Wasted premise
    An interesting premise in this one but in the end I found it a rather silly arthouse drama only one step up from the nonsense of ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES. George Mackay, who I've enjoyed in the likes of 1917 and THE SECRET OF MARROWBONE, plays one inmate in a special institute treating people who believe they're animals - yes, I'm serious. Lots of nonsense and overacting, of course, and no subtlety at all, with the one good performance going to Paddy Considine's scary 'zookeeper'. The rest just ends up dragging on interminably with certain characters, like the bird girl, becoming increasingly irritating as time goes on.