Walter Ungerer's The Animal (1976) initially didn't make my #EndOfYearList. Like its narrative, it needed its time to arrive and settle. Jo gets into Paul's car and moves into his house. The house, remote and silent, and the landscape become their own, snow covered world.
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-animal-1976/
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A woman waits for a man at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter. Snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Later two strange children appear at the window, and an old woman summons them away. Isolation, then alienation overcome the couple. The woman has a dream which comes true. She disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remain in the snow that covers the supernatural landscape.
I logged The Animal (1976) on 2024-09-22, and gave it a 4.0 star rating.
https://letterboxd.com/settima/film/the-animal-1976/ (tags in link may contain spoilers and artwork may be NSFW)
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