Jacob (MacKay) is a young man who has species dysphoria. With a dynamic, physical lead performance from George MacKay, Wolf is a haunting exploration of those seeking to live as themselves and those whose cruelty and fear wish to limit that identity. In clumsy hands, the metaphor would fall apart and into the open arms of bigots who snidely say things like “I identify as an attack helicopter.” But Biancheri’s film works because of its empathetic understanding of identity and humanity and how the shortcomings of the latter can limit the former. With her debut feature Wolf, writer-director Nathalie Biancheri crafts a powerful parable about trans identity, filtering it through a story about people who identify as a different species.
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