Time Of The Wolf

In a welcome departure from the deliberate provocations of such art-house shockers as BENNY'S VIDEO (1992) and FUNNY GAMES (1997), Austrian director Michael Haneke takes the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it disaster scenario and recasts it as a challenging, existential thriller. After an unnamed catastrophe disrupts life across Europe, Anne (Isabelle Huppert, who previously worked with Haneke in THE PIANO TEACHER); her husband, Georges (Daniel Duval); and their two young children, Ben (Lucas Biscombe) and Eva (Anais Demoustier), pack their car with whatever supplies they can carry and escape the chaos of the city for their weekend house deep in the wooded countryside —...