How will the world end? Whether by nuclear catastrophe, alien invasion or environmental collapse, movies have long sought to answer this question, by envisioning the unthinkable. Today, in an age of accelerated global climate change and Trump's saber rattling with North Korea, apocalypse cinema has never felt more vital. In this program, we look back at the best, boldest, and most unusual visions of The End. Tonight's film is Michael Haneke's despairing drama Time of the Wolf (2003). 

In the aftermath of a global disaster, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and Georges (Daniel Duval) flee the city with their children Eva (Anaïs Demoustier) and Ben (Lucas Biscombe) seeking refuge in the countryside. But their search for shelter is met with violence as they are turned away at every point. Teaming up with a young runaway (Hakim Taleb), the family settles at a railway depot, ruled by a new political and religious order. Michael Haneke's haunting, harrowing apocalypse tale follows one family's desperate struggle to survive. The film's realistic style and its elemental narrative give Time of the Wolf a primeval power. Shooting without artificial light, Haneke crafts a dark and menacing world, illuminated however fleetingly, with flickers of hope. Watch the trailer.

Directed by Michael Haneke, 2003, France/Austria/Germany, 113 minutes. In French & Romanian w/ English subtitles. 

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