Review of Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Alex A — 18 Aug 2013

This is is the first Ingmar Bergman movie I have seen, and after walking away from it I still can't decide if it was a pretentious misfire or an extraordinary masterpiece. I will admit that while the film was much different than I had originally expected, it was still beautifully photographed and wonderfully acted by its leads, but it was the films thematic implications and the stylistic choices made by Bergman that left me scratching my head.

It's definitely a unique and admirable picture, but one that I found very inaccessible and hard to pin down. Honestly I'm still not even sure what to think of it. I believe that it's certainly something that I should go back and rewatch, but I'm still uncertain if this was best movie to start off with for Ingmar Bergman's filmography and if I should go give a few of his other films a watch before going back to this one.