Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Read more …
Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,' the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.
Moselle allows us to rubberneck at lives which are simultaneously extraordinary and dull, but only manages to show that there are some fairly odd ideas about parenting out there.
Crystal Moselle’s documentary about a family virtually imprisoned in their New York flat for decades is necessarily basic but fundamentally joyful.
The documentary leaves a lot of questions unanswered but that adds to its sense of mystery.
A compelling glimpse into a bizarre, hermetically sealed life. The brothers are easy to warm to, and the family’s slow introduction into the outside world is quietly moving.
A once-in-a-lifetime subject, sensitively brought to the screen, the Angulos’ story makes the strange seem ordinary and the ordinary, insane.
If the film is frustratingly oblique when it comes to following through on some of these issues and probing a little deeper, it does, in the end, offer a remarkable testament to that most enduring of all movie clichés: the power of the human spirit.
Filmmaker Crystal Moselle, who stumbled across the family, has crafted an unusual and thought-provoking film with unexpected charm.
Raised in seclusion from the real world – but not from the world of movies – the six Angulo brothers make engaging fodder for this fascinating study.
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