Movie Thoughts: The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard (2025)

• Released: June 7th, 2025
• Directed by: David Verbeek
• Running time: 2h
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A feral girl raised by wolves named One/Alice is taken from the wild. She eventually ends up in the care of two cult-y environmentalists, who think that she's some kind of savior figure. One/Alice must now figure out who she really is and break free from the control of these "parents". 

My Thoughts

It's...okay, I guess. It wasn't really my thing. I mainly watched it for the wolves the title promised, and the wolves are only in the first ten or so minutes of the movie, so that was disappointing. There aren't even foxes or leopards in this, the fox and the leopard are more so symbolic.

Alice's story was engaging enough, and you do feel very bad for her. But I at the same time wasn't super invested in anything going on here. I was just hoping for Alice to go back to the wild, something that didn't happen until the very, very end of the movie. Part of me is glad that she did embrace her wild side once again after being forced to repress it for so long, but at the same time I just wasn't super invested in these characters, therefore also not very invested in Alice's journey.

There's some good acting and cinematography here, which I can appreciate. The first fifteen minutes are dedicated to a completely pointless character, though, so that was weird and was time that could've been spent better elsewhere.

The movie also goes in uncomfortable places (lots of blood/violence/parent figure-on-child figure SA), so if that's a trigger for you definitely avoid this.