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There are witches and Valkyries and undead warriors, plus an oracle with a wacky headdress played by none other than Iceland's biggest superstar, Bjork. Eggers fully embraces the mysticism of Old Norse legends and makes no effort to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
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The combat scenes are intensely visceral, but they also play like ancient rituals, full of intricate choreography and filmed in long, unbroken takes by the cinematographer Jarin Blaschke.īut the movie, for all its concern for accuracy, is also wildly imaginative. The filmmaking is as muscular as Skarsgard's frequently blood-caked torso. Here he brings an ancient civilization to life with obsessive historical research and a staggering attention to detail.
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Meanwhile, Amleth finds a love interest and an ally in Olga, a fellow slave played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred in Edgar's first feature, "The Witch." If you've seen that movie or its follow-up, "The Lighthouse," the director's flair for period filmmaking will come as no surprise. Though she seems submissive at first, Gudrun turns out to be one of the movie's more fascinating creations - played by Nicole Kidman in her best performance in years. In keeping with "Hamlet," Fjolnir is now married to Gudrun, his brother's wife and Amleth's mother. And so he heads to Iceland and passes himself off as a slave working on Fjolnir's farm. When he learns that his uncle Fjolnir has been dethroned and fled to Iceland, he decides it's payback time. Years after fleeing home, Amleth has become a coldblooded killer, a berserker in Old Norse terms, raiding and plundering villages in Slavic territory.
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Decades pass, and Amleth is now played by the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard, who tears into the role with a raw, feral hunger for which his part in the vampire series "True Blood" now feels like a warmup act. Your kingdom will not last.ĬHANG: Amleth, who's just a boy at the time, witnesses the murder and barely escapes with his life, vowing to return later and kill his uncle. Soaked in my blood, 'twill soon be sliding off your arm like a serpent. But know that bearing a stolen ring makes no half-breed a king. Now, behold how swiftly your brother swings his sword.ĮTHAN HAWKE: (As King Aurvandil War-Raven) Strike, brother. Pity you never paid a bastard's eyes heed before. Before the fatal blow is delivered, the brothers exchange words, and their amusingly ornate dialogue gives you some sense of the heightened poetic register "The Northman" is aiming for.ĬLAES BANG: (As Fjolnir the Brotherless) Ye behold your brother's gaze in amazement. Not long after, the king is slain by his brother, Fjolnir, played by the terrific Danish actor Claes Bang. The story begins on an island somewhere in the North Atlantic, where the king, played by a scraggly bearded Ethan Hawke, has returned home from conquests overseas. But the director, Robert Eggers, who wrote the script with the Icelandic poet and novelist Sjon, has a few surprises up his sleeve. If that sounds familiar, it's because this legend was the direct inspiration for Shakespeare's "Hamlet," and so you know Amleth's journey is destined to end in bloodshed and tragedy. Mostly set in 10th century Iceland, it tells the brutal story of Amleth, a young Viking prince who sets out to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle.
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Sixty-four years and countless Viking movies and TV series later, the mesmerizing new film "The Northman" takes up the challenge, and it has violence, vengeance and vastness to burn. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: Back in 1958, "The Vikings," a lavish Hollywood production starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, sold itself in its trailer this way - nothing ever matched its violence, its vengeance, its vastness. It's the latest movie from the director Robert Eggers, who previously made the period dramas "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse." Our film critic, Justin Chang, has this review. The new film "The Northman" is a Viking revenge saga starring Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy.
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