BRATTLEBORO — The Latchis Theatre's Off the Beaten Path film series concludes this weekend with The Wolfpack, a unique documentary critics have described as “undeniably fascinating” and “stunning (and amazingly well done) and hard to believe.”
The Off the Beaten Path series, presented in collaboration with the Brattleboro Film Festival, showcases recent films which may have slipped under the radar but are worth seeing.
The Wolfpack will be presented on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 22 and 23, at 4 p.m.
Directed by Crystal Moselle, The Wolfpack introduces audiences to the Angulo Brothers. Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes.
With no friends and living on welfare, they feed their curiosity, creativity, and imagination with film, which allows them to escape from their feelings of isolation and loneliness. Everything changes when one of the brothers escapes, and the power dynamics in the house are transformed. The Wolfpack must learn how to integrate into society without disbanding the brotherhood.
“Everything about The Wolfpack is extraordinary, beginning with the subjects of Crystal Moselle's mesmerizing documentary,” wrote Lisa Schwarzbaum in TIME.
“It all adds up to a story of the human spirit's ability to survive and even thrive despite twisted circumstance,” added Tom Long of The Detroit News.