The Promised Land, review: Mads Mikkelsen is a dour delight in this gritty 'Hygge Western' : vimarsana.com

Ever since Sergio Leone talked Clint Eastwood into wearing a poncho for A Fistful of Dollars and invented the Spaghetti Western, filmmakers have been enthusiastically re-mixing the iconography of the American Frontier. In Mads Mikkelsen’s gritty, gripping Danish period drama The Promised Land, those cliches receive a cosy Scandi upgrade. Cancel the spaghetti: behold the Hygge Western.

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