A movie about identity that doesn’t know its own identity, Nathalie Biancheri’s “Wolf” starts in the wilderness, and pretty much stays there as it tries to tease sympathetic human drama out of the singularity known as species dysphoria, a condition in which people believe themselves to be not human, usually an animal.
Set mostly in a facility designed to “cure” such folk, and where young, lupine-identified protagonist Jacob (George MacKay, “1917”) is sent by his concerned parents, “Wolf” believes itself to be something outré and profound — a love story and a confinement parable, a fight-the-system allegory inside a be-yourself tear-jerker — and maybe just the fable for our identity-conscious era.