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Director Robert Eggers revisits an ancient saga of redemption and revenge in his most visually stunning film yet. K. Austin Collins' review

The legend that Shakespeare based Hamlet on has inspired another work: Robert Eggers' violent new film, The Northman.

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Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

Epic holds our attention with unforgettable visuals and the sheer, raw audacity of its premise.

Viking mythology gets a workout in Robert Eggers’ The Northman. Eggers is co-writer with Sjon (Lamb) and directs the bloodthirsty piece. It is AD895 and King Aurvandil War-Raven (Ethan Hawke) returns from war to be greeted by his wife, Queen Gudrun (Nicole Kidman) and young son Amleth (Oscar Novak). War-Raven hides a deep physical wound,…

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

The first sign that not everyone in Robert Eggers' 10th-century Viking revenge tale “The Northman” has their priorities entirely straight comes early in the film, when the Viking king Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) returns home to the North Atlantic kingdom of Hrafnsey after a year of fighting overseas.

Robert Eggers The Northman is out-there and strangely accurate. How real history and bonkers cinema came together in the wildest Viking epic ever.

Review: 'The Northman' an ambitious, but lean revenge tale | 2022-04-20 21:19:03