Based don a popularChinesenovel, Wolf Totem tells of ayoung man's obsession withWolf packs in the Inner Mongoliagrasslands. It was directedbyJean-JacquesAnnaud.
Le Portier quickly became a specialist of big-cat scenes and after Pasolini came other famous screen directors such as Jean-Jacques Annaud with "Two Brothers, " Ridley Scott with "Gladiator, " and more recently Ang Lee with "Life of Pi, " which stars a digital tiger.
But instead of rethinking the shape of the drama to suit the format, the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, has taken a small, simplistic plot, filled a couple of lonely roles with flat performers, and marooned them in the midst of a spectacle that is not so much a movie as a demonstration.