100 wolf review movie#

When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of 'curative' therapies. 'It's not about surviving, it's about surviving as me.' Believing he is a wolf trapped in a human body, Jacob eats, sleeps, and lives like a wolf - much to the shock of his family. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-one viewing was enough-but if you are looking for something different, it might be a good rental. It's rated R for abusive behavior, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 38 minutes. The question remains does the therapy work? Sometimes Paddy's curative therapies might be considered to border on the abusive side. There are other people there that think they are creatures varying anywhere from a horse, a squirrel or even a parrot. Lily_Rose, another patient that identifies as a wildcat, soon starts giving the old puppy eyes to George. It's run by Paddy, who calls himself the Zookeeper. Luckily, his parents find a hospital that specializes in just such a disorder. He likes to run through the forest on all fours and howl at the moon. George is a young man that suffers from species identity disorder-that's what they call it here-and thinks he is a wolf in human form. It is interesting and original and the actors give their best interpretations of how a human/animal hybrid might act.

100 wolf review movie#

Some times, people will gripe to me about all the super hero and action movies-not me, I love them-so if you are so inclined, this movie is for you. I saw Wolf, starring George MacKay-1917, Captain Fantastic Lily_Rose Depp-Johnny's little girl was in Voyagers, Savage and Paddy Considine-Peaky Blinders_tv, The Bourne Ultimatum. Director Biancheri has delivered a high-concept arthouse film that will likely find a niche audience, while others are likely to brush it off as cinematic absurdity. He much choose between what he sees as his true self, and life as a man. Obviously the real mystery is whether Jacob's bonding with Cecile is enough to change his outlook. The two actors have one scene together that, by itself, elevates the film. She and Jacob manage to become friends, and the attraction goes deeper through Jacob's primal urges and tendencies. Lily-Rose Depp plays Cecile, a long-term patient who has yet to fully kick her wildcat tendencies. We saw his physical abilities as he performed yoga in CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (2016), and here he expertly creates the movements (and howls) of the wolf he believes himself to be. Of course, this movie is not at the level of that Anatole Litvak classic, but George MacKay's performance is quite something to appreciate. If you've ever seen THE SNAKE PIT (1948), then you have some idea of how disturbing institutional treatment can be. It's unsettling to see the actions and mannerisms of these patients, but equally unsettling to witness Dr. Mann (played straight-faced by Paddy Considine) is also known as 'The Zookeeper' as the patients include: a parrot, a duck, a squirrel, a horse, and a German shepherd. Mann (get it?) seem more like torture and humiliation than treatment.

The questionable curative therapies conducted by Dr. Next we see Jacob with his parents at an institution that specializes in Species Identity Disorder.

It's his butt we first glimpse as he prowls the vegetation growing in nature. George MacKay stars as Jacob, a young man who identifies as a wolf.

That's a sentence I hope to never write again. The film opens on the bare butt of a male in the forest. It's easy enough to connect the dots to gender dysphoria, but it also walks a fine line between mental health and sadness (and if we are being honest, a bit of humor - at least as presented here). These are folks who identify as something other than human, typically a type of animal. Writer-director Nathalie Biancheri latches on to the discussion by bringing up Species Identity Disorder, also known as Otherkin. We all know that gender identity, and identity in general, are topics receiving a great deal of attention these days.