M. Leary

Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003)

(Ed. Note: This was originally published in Image Facts.) “[Films are]…polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption […]