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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 18 | | Cast
Sarah Patterson
Angela Lansbury
David Warner
Terence Stamp | | Directors
Neil Jordan | | Screenwriters
Neil Jordan | | Running Time
95 minutes |
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The Company of Wolves
Neil Jordan and Angela Lansbury dissect male psychology via wolves.
Plot
A young girl dreams she is Rosaleen, who, wearing a red cape, carries her basket through the woods to Granny's house. Along the way, she meets and flirts with a werewolf in the guise of a man, and promises him a kiss if he reaches Granny's house before her.
Verdict
Jordan would revisit similar themes with the homoerotic Interview With A Vampire (1994), the ethereal, flawed serial killer movie In Dreams (1999) and The Butcher Boy (1997), a frank exploration of the dark depths of a young boy's imagination. None of them, however, quite matched the fever pitch of psychosexual weirdness on display here.
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