Climate activist and writer JANE ROGERS introduces her new collection, Fire-ready, and examines the connection between life and fiction
Film round-up: April 19, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews The Northman, The Lost City, Benedetta, and The Great Movement
ELEANOR DOBSON reflects on a stark visual record of the violent desecration of Tutankhamun’s mummified remains
RUTH AYLETT appreciates the rich blend of poetry and music that accompanied the launch of the Morning Star’s anthology of poetry, Who We Are
WANJA KIMANI explores the many bonds of community experience expressed in in the bold and colourful imagery of a new mural
New releases from Keeley, Lucinda Williams and Ye Vagabonds
JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
The Northman (15)
Directed by Robert Eggers
★★★
AFTER his horrendous The Lighthouse (two hours I will never get back), director Robert Eggers returns with an epic and stomach-churning Viking tale which isn’t for the faint of heart.
Co-written by Eggers with Icelandic author Sjon, it centres on a young Viking prince’s (Oscar Novak) quest to avenge his father’s (Ethan Hawke) murder and save his mother (Nicole Kidman), from a story apparently based on the Danish 12th-century text which inspired Hamlet.
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