'The Promised Land' review: An old-school western thriller
Mads Mikkelsen stars in a familiar but satisfying tale of a resilient homesteader, a greedy landowner, abused servants and the taming of unruly territory.
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Mads Mikkelsen stars in a familiar but satisfying tale of a resilient homesteader, a greedy landowner, abused servants and the taming of unruly territory.
The moody Danish film by Nikolaj Arcel's is based on the novel 'The Captain and Ann Barbara' by Ida Jessen
Nikolaj Arcel's "The Promised Land" is aptly titled. Adapted from the novel "The Captain and Ann Barbara" by Ida Jessen, the land itself - the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes up the continental portion of Denmark - proves to be both setting and character, as mercurial, tormented a