Artist Hour Of The Wolf
Both fans and detractors of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist are bound to recognize elements in Ingmar Bergman's staggering 1968 psychodrama Hour Of The Wolf. Bergman, and this film in particular, was an influence on Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, whose work in turn so influenced Antichrist. Hour Of The Wolf follows a couple, played by Bergman regulars Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow, as they take a country retreat to help Ullmann's character clear her head just as she begins to suffer from debilitating hallucinations. The film's startlingly surreal imagery, including a character whose face falls off, mark it as one of Bergman's most inaccessible films.
Updated 11/19/2009
