The Northman [DVD] [2022]

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The New Yorker's Richard Brody found that the film "offers no synesthesia, no evocation of any sense beside vision" and criticized Eggers's direction, ultimately concluding, " The Northman merely serves up its raw material both half-baked and overcooked. King Aurvandill's village was constructed at Torr Head on the coast of County Antrim, while Fjölnir's farm was built at Knockdhu near Larne.

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Robert Eggers has created the Scandi noir to end all Scandi noirs: an atavistic revenge horror based on the Old Norse legend of Amleth, a young nobleman intent on bloody payback against the uncle who murdered his father and married his widowed mother; it’s the tale that inspired Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Realizing that Olga and their children will never be safe while Fjölnir lives, Amleth, despite Olga's pleas, jumps overboard and swims ashore reasoning that he cannot escape his fate.Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, Anja Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe In Talks To Lead 'The Northman' From Robert Eggers". Weekend Box Office Forecast: The Bad Guys, The Northman, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Take on Sonic 2 and Dumbledore (Updated)". The visually-flooring Viking epic has a star-studded cast including Peaky Blinders' Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga, Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, Nicole Kidman as Queen Gudrún and Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool. Although the film had underperformed at the worldwide box office, it later found financial success at the VOD and other post-theatrical markets.

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You could laugh at some of its over-the-top machismo but I feel like Eggers is inviting criticism of that very machismo, so enjoy the movie on one level where it indulges all the Old World violence, and then enjoy it on another level where it subverts and castigates the same Old World violence. The Northman is one of the best revenge flicks of recent memory and is the most straightforward Eggers film to date.There are nine total deleted or extended scenes included here, none of which are too important to the story, but are nonetheless fun to watch. She grew up in small-town America before moving to Chicago to purse a career in entertainment journalism. Audio Commentary - Director Robert Eggers delivers a fun and engaging commentary track that explores some of the makings of the movie which includes how they shot certain sequences and some of the camera magic that was used. Or you could just watch for the glistening muscles, famous faces, bad accents, bad wigs, guttural score, and weird imagery.