IMDb describes the film “Wolf,” which centers on a young man (George MacKay) who thinks he’s a wolf, as a “high-concept art house drama.” How high? Put it this way: Maybe it shouldn’t be driving.
Set in a clinic of sorts — whose therapeutic mission seems to fall in the gray area between rehab and conversion therapy — the perplexing sophomore feature from Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri (“Nocturnal”) concerns a malady called Species Identity Disorder. In the fantasyland of Biancheri’s imagination, S.I.D. is a common enough condition to afflict several children, teenagers and young adults, each of whom is struggling with the belief that he or she is a parrot (Lola Petticrew), a horse (Elsa Fionuir), a squirrel (Darragh Shannon), a duck (Senan Jennings) or a panda (Karise Yansen), among other animals.
