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May the Norse Be With You
Chris Kavan - wrote on 06/12/2022
If this is what happens when you give Robert Eggers more money then give this man ALL the money (and let him run wild). Eggers had previously given us The Witch and The Lighthouse - both visually-stunning and character-driven films and The Northman is the same on a much bigger scale.
The story is based on the Scandinavian legend Amleth which in turn was partly the inspiration behind William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The journey of Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) begins with a young boy (Oscar Novak) witnessing the death of his father, King Aurvandil War-Raven (Ethan Hawke) at the hands of his bastard brother Fjölnir The Brotherless (Claes Bang). As this happens shortly after a drug-fueled coming-of-age ceremony presided over by Heimir The Fool (Willem Dafoe) - it also inspires a life-long …
