Foreign Film Friday: “Hour of the Wolf”

Classic movies from around the world every Friday!

(1968, Sweden, 1h 29m, Horror/Drama, by Ingmar Bergman)
The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of Fårö, this one stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). When the couple are invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance, as a coven of sinister aristocrats hastens the artist’s psychological deterioration. This gripping film is charged with a nightmarish power rare in the Bergman canon, and contains dreamlike effects that brilliantly underscore the tale’s horrific elements.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.