The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves
by Neil Jordan

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Actor: Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Micha Bergese, Sarah Patterson, Tusse Silberg
Director: Neil Jordan
Cinematographer: Bryan Loftus
Writer: Neil Jordan
Editor: Rodney Holland
Producer: Chris Brown
Producer: Nik Powell
Producer: Stephen Woolley
Writer: Angela Carter
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 95 minutes
Release Date: 1989-09-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Lions Gate/Vestron
Studio: Lions Gate/Vestron

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Movie Review: Lovely concept, poor execution
Summary: 2 Stars

The concept of lycanthropy as a metaphor for sexual initiation is an interesting one, full of implications to keep a graduate student writing for days on end. Unfortunately, this film fails to adapt the concept smoothly, and its jarring visuals (really, could we not find even a couple of wolves for shooting, instead of using Belgian sheepdogs?!) undermine its attempts at real art.

In the end, I couldn't decide if the confused scripting was a comment on the conflicting and tangled mythology of sex presented to most adolescents, or if it were simply a conflicting and tangled screenplay. In the end, it failed to move me.

With its intriguing premise, it should have been better than it was.

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The tangled forest is misty with mystery, the thatched cottages are cute and quaint, and the dashing rogues are devious charmers, but this revision of "Little Red Riding Hood" is not your usual fairy tale. In the troubled dreams of an adolescent girl in the hormonal rush of puberty, it becomes a veritable werewolf story with lush storybook imagery, gothic horror flourishes, and decidedly sexual implications. Director Neil Jordan, who collaborated with author Angela Carter in this 1985 adaptation of her story, applies a knowing intelligence to the bittersweet tale. The often startling transformation effects may appear primitive compared to modern movies, but the delight is in the dark imagination, dense textures, and fantastical wonders of this dream world. Angela Lansbury is the story-spinning granny and David Warner the understanding woodsman father, and watch for a devilish cameo by a sinister and seductive Terence Stamp. --Sean Axmaker

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