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- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 35 m
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A 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, Charles Perrault, Neil Jordan
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 35 m
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 35 m
The Company of Wolves
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5.9
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Summary A 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, Charles Perrault, Neil Jordan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
69
57% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
43% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The most innovative, intelligent, and visually sumptuous horror film of recent years.
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.
It's also absolutely jam- packed with the kind of symbols that delight Freudian analysts of culture, particularly of folk tales.
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.
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]
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.
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]
User Score
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Awards
Fantasporto
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 4 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
