The Hunt

Ahhhhha, here it is! The first film (and I expect a few more!) I’ve seen to really place Saura up on a level with the great masters. I suspect his output may have been uneven, but when his game is on, you get this unknown masterpiece here. A few old war buddies and onetime, failed business partners take a weekend trip to the arid wilderness outside Toledo to hunt rabbits. The heat, violence, and memories increasingly eat away at them, leaving them by the end of the trip stripped down to a terrifying skeleton of what might be ‘man in his natural environment.’ Chilling, economical, masterful.