Sarah Patterson

Angela Lansbury

David Warner

Graham Crowden

Brian Glover

Kathryn Pogson

Stephen Rea

Tusse Silberg

Micha Bergese

Georgia Slowe

Susan Porrett

Shane Johnstone

Dawn Archibald

Richard Morant

Danielle Dax

Vincent McClaren

Ruby Buchanan

Jimmy Gardner

Roy Evans

Edward Marksen

Jim Brown

Jim Carter

Terence Stamp

Neil Jordan

Angela Carter

Stephen Woolley

Nik Powell

George Fenton

Bryan Loftus

Rodney Holland

Susie Figgis

Anton Furst

Stuart Rose

Elizabeth Waller

Vivien Pottersman

Paul Frift

Simon Hinkly

Paul Tivers

Christopher Tucker

Terry Cade

Gareth Milne

Graeme Crowther

Nick Hobbs

Dinny Powell

Bill Weston

Tex Fuller

Alison Thorne

Norma Brusa

Mike Roberts

John Campbell

David John

Anthony Sloman

Alan Bell

Bryan Tilling

Paul Carr

Jane Royle

Paula Gillespie

Pauline Heys

Sylvia Croft

Stephanie Kaye

Mark Nelson

Pauline Lewington

John Birkinshaw

Tony Common

John O'Connor

Geoff Kingsley

Philip Elton

Nigel Phelps

Ray Perry Sr.

Brian Herlihy

Sue Knight

Tony Cridlin

John Chandler

Eamonn O'Keeffe

Ian Foster

Frank Batt

Neil Kingsbury

Justin Krish

Tim Arrowsmith

Mike Saxton

David Saggs

Tom Collins

Lynda Levy

Mike Culling

Marc Boyle

Alan Whibley

John Harman

Shirley Draffan

Chris Brown

Charles Perrault

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The Company of Wolves

ITC Entertainment

Palace Pictures

United Kingdom

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dreams

grandparent grandchild relationship

wolf

fairy tale

halloween

little red riding hood

werewolf

ireland

grandmother

dark fairy tale

dark forest

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This film is pretentious.

Wizard of Oz meets a horror movie to discuss the s(REDACTED)xuality of a (REDACTED FOR ARBITRARY REASONS!!!!)aged girl. This is a pretentious art house movie and one that thinks that it is vastly more intelligent than it really is.

It wants to retell the Little Red Riding hood story in a semi-erotic way, but never actually achieves it.

But, at least it's pretty.

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There's a lot of "Little Red Riding Hood" to this Neil Jordan fantasy about the young "Rosaleen" (Sarah Patterson). This woman is prone to vivid dreams set many centuries earlier, where she lives happily with her parents (and without her dull as ditchwater sister) and where she is regular regaled with portentous stories by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). It's in one such dream, and whilst walking through the woods to visit her elderly relative that she encounters a handsome and enigmatic young man who wants to bet who will reach the old woman's house first! She is intrigued, but is she prepared for the true identity of her admirer? Though the story is a bit staccato at times, but this is still a rich and vividly constructed adaptation of a story that mixes romance, fable and a soupçon of horror cleverly and entertainingly - whilst subtly presenting an undercurrent of emerging sexuality. Sure, some of the effects are not what they might be and the stylised presentation doesn't always work, but the storytelling of "Granny" and some of her warnings about the path, the fruit and about a chap whose eyebrows meet in the middle are engagingly delivered by an on form, and ideally cast Lansbury. A solid supporting cast and a rich score from George Fenton make for quite an enjoyable and creative interpretation of a well trodden story, and I quite enjoyed watching it.

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The Company of Wolves( 1984)

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Written by GenerationofSwine on Thu Jan 12 2023

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