MAYER WAKEFIELD is entertained but let down by an audacious production that, sadly, doesn't ring true
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Film round-up: April 19, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews The Northman, The Lost City, Benedetta, and The Great Movement
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by drama that, despite accomplished performances, cannot overcome an unfocused script
New releases from Sam Carter, Spell Songs and Les Thomas
KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero
ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament
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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