SummaryA teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
Directed By:Neil Jordan
Written By:Angela Carter, Neil Jordan, Charles Perrault
The Company of Wolves
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Generally Favorable
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The most innovative, intelligent, and visually sumptuous horror film of recent years.
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A lush, ambitious, strikingly outsized play on Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood that makes explicit the dangers of a budding young woman straying from the path.
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It's also absolutely jam- packed with the kind of symbols that delight Freudian analysts of culture, particularly of folk tales.
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It is not a children's film and it is not an exploitation film; it is a disturbing and stylish attempt to collect some of the nightmares that lie beneath the surface of Little Red Riding Hood.
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Rich in imagination and ambition, and highly original as it explores the darker, sexual side of familiar fairytales, chiefly Little Red Riding Hood. [04 Nov 2005, p.9]
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Admirably attempting an adult approach to traditional fairy tale material, The Company of Wolves nevertheless represents an uneasy marriage between old-fashioned storytelling and contemporary screen explicitness.
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It seems that director Neil Jordan is trying to make some comment on the way classic fairy tales try to force adult attitudes on young, free spirits, but the method by which we are brought to that realization is tortuous. [22 Apr 1985, p.4C]
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Oct 23, 2023
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Beautiful and atmospheric this movie takes me on a journey. I did not expect I looked at the cover for it looks interesting and I bought it on Blu-ray and it is certainly a good buy for me. Basically a very feminist reading of little writing Hood what I got out of them movie and some really good set design and will Sympathy for the Devil in the later half, I'd enjoyed it. It was good. The acting was good. I didn't really think there were any remarkable performances except for a Grandma she did an amazing job.
Production Company:
- Incorporated Television Company (ITC)
- Palace Pictures
Release Date:Apr 19, 1985
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Within the forests are strangers lying in wait for innocents . . . who stray from the path! [Australia Theatrical]
Awards
Fantasporto
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 4 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
