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Hold the Dark's unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier - and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings. Read Critics Reviews
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- Jeremy Saulnier
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- Jeffrey Wright
The basic premise of Jeremy Saulnier's adaptation of Hold the Dark takes place in Alaska where wolf expert Russell Core has arrived to investigate the disappearance of a child claimed by his mother to have been taken from the very animal Core studies.
- What Happens in Hold The Dark's Ending
- Medora and Vernon Were Brother & Sister
- "The Dark" Has Made Humans Into Wolves
- Russell Is Saved from The Dark
- Hold The Dark's Real Meaning
Thinking back to his first meeting with Medora, Russell deduces that she's hiding in a hot spring a few hours from the town which she described as "close as I can get to warmth." He and Donald fly up in a forming storm, but Vern's already beaten them there: he kills the chief and stalks Russell as he escapes towards the spring. Medora is indeed hid...
The most important piece of information within that ambiguity is that, yes, Medora and Vernon Sloane were twin brother and sister. This is hinted at throughout the story - Medora says she never "met" Vern but always knew him, the Indian Hunter at the mine says the pair have the same hair and eyes, and a photo shows the two as children in a decidedl...
Hold The Darkis set deep in the Alaskan mountains, in a village so isolated they view the police of a neighboring town as a threat and city Anchorage as not even part of Alaska. Medora finds a beach unimaginable and Cheeon has never heard of San Deigo. Meanwhile, Vern fights in Iraq but seems dazed by the conflict; at first assumed to be the onset ...
We learn very little of Russell's life before going to Alaska, only that he's estranged from his wife and daughter, and is diving deep into his professional life with an apartment littered with various wolf paintings. In other words, he's in his own form of isolation, cut off from much of the real world in a psychological way just as the Sloanes ar...
Like all of Saulnier's films, Hold The Dark is a brutal, unflinching look at life and death with tangible stakes. However, whereas Green Roomwas about the young accepting unavoidable mortality, there's something grander here. The importance of family, the passing of generations and relationships are present in many forms throughout the movie: Russe...
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Hold the Dark: Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. With Beckam Crawford, Riley Keough, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Tayles. After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate her son in the Alaskan wilderness.
- Jeremy Saulnier
- 31 sec
Sep 28, 2018 · Adapting a book of the same name by William Giraldi, regular Saulnier collaborator Macon Blair (also the star of “Blue Ruin”) transports viewers to the bleak, snow-covered landscape of Alaska. From the beginning, the setting of “Hold the Dark” is unforgiving, terrifying.
An absorbing movie that deals, if only obliquely, with American capitalism's historic crimes against indigenous peoples and, more recently, the Iraqi population. Full Review | Aug 5, 2020
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Hold the Dark received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported a 71% approval rating based on 85 reviews, with an average score of 6.5/10.
