![]() ![]() Lily-Rose Depp plays Cecile, a long-term patient who has yet to fully kick her wildcat tendencies. We saw his physical abilities as he performed yoga in CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (2016), and here he expertly creates the movements (and howls) of the wolf he believes himself to be. Of course, this movie is not at the level of that Anatole Litvak classic, but George MacKay's performance is quite something to appreciate. If you've ever seen THE SNAKE PIT (1948), then you have some idea of how disturbing institutional treatment can be. It's unsettling to see the actions and mannerisms of these patients, but equally unsettling to witness Dr. Mann (played straight-faced by Paddy Considine) is also known as 'The Zookeeper' as the patients include: a parrot, a duck, a squirrel, a horse, and a German shepherd. Mann (get it?) seem more like torture and humiliation than treatment. The questionable curative therapies conducted by Dr. Next we see Jacob with his parents at an institution that specializes in Species Identity Disorder. It's his butt we first glimpse as he prowls the vegetation growing in nature. George MacKay stars as Jacob, a young man who identifies as a wolf. That's a sentence I hope to never write again. The film opens on the bare butt of a male in the forest. ![]() It's easy enough to connect the dots to gender dysphoria, but it also walks a fine line between mental health and sadness (and if we are being honest, a bit of humor - at least as presented here). These are folks who identify as something other than human, typically a type of animal. Writer-director Nathalie Biancheri latches on to the discussion by bringing up Species Identity Disorder, also known as Otherkin. We all know that gender identity, and identity in general, are topics receiving a great deal of attention these days. To add to Freddy’s worries, his uncle is as nasty and evil as another Uncle we all know and love to hate and is out to make sure Freddy never becomes the next pack leader!Ī story of misunderstanding others and building unlikely friendships, this is a great family film that all will love, and if you are a dog lover you will appreciate the finer details of the movie that encompass the essence of a dog right down to the scrapping the backside along the floor!Īnimation, Adventure | Australia, 2020 | U | Cinema | 31st July 2020 (UK) | Vertigo Releasing | Dir.Greetings again from the darkness. We follow Freddy is his quest to find the moonstone. The scene had us all laughing!įreddy believes the moon has cursed him for losing the moon ring the night he lost his father. He steps into the moonlight only to be turned into a Poodle. The film fast-forwards 6 years to Freddy’s warfing, the first time he turns into a wolf, and it’s so important for him as he will become the leader of the pack. My eight-year-old called it! He immediately got upset when he saw Freddy and his father having such fun “T his is not going to end well” were his words! I don’t know if he’s picked up the critic in me or if he’s just seen one too many Disney movies to know a parent always gets it. This film knows how to hit you in the heart at the beginning with an echo of Simba and Mufasa’s relationship and ending! With the help of an unlikely ally in a streetwise stray named Batty, Freddy must overcome his pink and fluffy exterior to prove he’s still 100% Wolf.Ī real good family film which will make you laugh out loud one minute and shed a tear the next. Thrown a bone by the pack elders, Freddy has until the next moonrise to prove he has the heart of a wolf, or risk being cast out forever. Positive he’ll become the most fearsome werewolf ever, Freddy is in for a shock when on his 14th birthday his first “warfing” goes awry, turning him into a ferocious… poodle. The story centres on Freddy Lupin, heir to the leadership of a proud family line of werewolves. 100% Wolf is produced by Flying Bark Productions in association with De-Fi Media and S iamese, with principal investment from Screen Australia, in association with Screenwest, Lotterywest and Screen NSW.
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