With Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough. Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. It stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. The new film from filmmaker Jeremy Sauliner (Blue Ruin, Green Room) has no color in its title–it could have been called The Grey, but there’s already been a (better) wolf-related film with that name. 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. Jeffrey Wright stars as Russell Core, the film's titular character. Hold the Dark being an allegory, is visible only in the rough contours of an elaborate discourse. At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Hold the Dark. Like all of Saulnier's films, Hold The Dark is a brutal, unflinching look at life and death with tangible stakes. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). However, whereas Green Room was about the young accepting unavoidable mortality, there's something grander here. Trailer After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness. Hold the Dark is a surreal mystery about a fictional remote Alaskan village, Keelut, beset by wolves that are apparently taking children. Hold the Dark is many things; sensical is not one of them. Hold the Dark is an American thriller/adventure movie directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. “Hold the Dark” is an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry. The importance of family, the passing of generations and relationships are present in many forms throughout the movie: Russell's fractured relationship with his … Hold the Dark kicks off when Alaska housewife Medora Sloane sends a handwritten letter to naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core after she believes her son has been taken by wolves. It forces us to confront a menacing otherness that lies beyond the typical order of things. READING GRID This angle of the analysis of the film and this acceptance of the functioning of the mechanics that animates Vernon Slone, allow us to solve the puzzle proposed by Saulnier. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier, Netflix's Hold the Dark is a mystery that borders on horror. 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