Hold the Dark (Aucun homme ni dieu)
Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone (RILEY KEOUGH), a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls. But when Medora's husband Vernon (ALEXANDER SKARSGARD) returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child's death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop, Donald Marium (JAMES BADGE DALE), races to stop Vernon's vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.
25 August 1976, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
7 December 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 October 1957, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada
September 28, 2018
Some directors want to make you meditate. Jeremy Saulnier just wants to kick your ass.
September 27, 2018
[Hold the Dark] strives to depict, with unflinching sincerity, the imbalance and upset in the natural order that arises from the murder of innocents. It's harrowing, but strangely beautiful too.
September 27, 2018
Its determined ambition and atmospheric skill keeps Saulnier firmly in the category of directors to watch.
September 27, 2018
Considering the (pardon the expression) glacial pace of much of the lead-up, Hold the Dark's eruption into massacre-level violence is jarring. Once it takes hold, it is relentless and grueling.
September 27, 2018
If Hold The Dark lacks the sheer razor-wire tension of Saulnier's earlier crime-horror corkers, it still knows how to make the carnage count-to force us to experience, on a gut level, every casualty.
September 27, 2018
A bold, mesmerizing and journey into a land of shadows and mystery that will leave a deep and unnerving impression.
September 26, 2018
Hold the Dark might have made a compelling book, but the film is one grim and pitiless journey.
September 27, 2018
Suddenly, what seemed like a man-vs-nature survivalist tale morphs into something that's part Arctic Noir and part violent art-horror.
September 27, 2018
Anger, violence and surrealism pervade the engrossing new thriller from "Blue Ruin" director Jeremy Saulnier.
September 26, 2018
Challenging, dreamlike, and unrelentingly bleak, Hold the Dark is a western - and a Saulnier film - unlike any other.
September 27, 2018
It makes for intriguing and often gripping viewing, but delivers a more confounding experience than is necessary.
September 27, 2018
Actually, a whole mess of things are amiss, and the longer you stick with Hold the Dark, the more you'll realize that when a local cop (James Badge Dale) says, "I'm not convinced the answers exist," he's speaking for all of us.
