Robert Eggers directs this epic starring Alexandre Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.
With just three films, Robert Eggers has become one of the most atypical and personal directors of contemporary cinema. His way of creating atmospheres, his connections with folk horror, his visual styling and the way in which through his characters we connect with the darkest part of the human soul make him a most atypical, enigmatic, radical creator. the time to always take your own cosmogony a little further. In that sense, ‘El hombre del norte’ is his most ambitious film, not only in terms of budget, but also when it comes to maximizing the telluric and sensory experience over the story.
Eggers delves into the Viking universe embracing all of its mystical mythology and pitting it against the intrinsic brutality of the berserker warriors. This intersection is reflected on the screen through work that is as physical and visceral as it is hallucinogenic. For this reason, a good part of his scenes, planned almost on the verge of delirium through long shots of titanic complexity, seem focused on immersing the viewer in a hypnotic aesthetic experience in which epic goes hand in hand with madness. expressive It is dirty, brutal, bloody, but at the same time, she exudes an unearthly beauty.
‘El hombre del norte’ is a Shakespearean nightmare around the obsession in which rage is rampant, but also poetry, which is full of imaginative ideas, which has an unfathomable pictorial grandiloquence and powerful images to remember.
For lovers of the great author epic
DATA SHEET
Direction: Robert Eggers Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke Original title: The Northman Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 04-22-2022 Gender: Adventure Film script: Robert Eggers, Sjon Sigurdsson Duration: 136 minutes
Synopsis: A Viking prince despairs in his quest to avenge his father’s murder. Large doses of violence, blood, fighting and betrayal in a Scandinavian legend that inspired William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.
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