The Promised Land (2023)
(Bastarden)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century, a Danish captain answers the king's call for settlement of Jutland and attempts to cultivate the unyielding soil. His efforts are seconded by a priest in need of a flock, and hindered by the local landowner jealous of his isolation.
Review:
Mikkelsen here takes the role for which his European work has made him famous (Michael Kolhaas, The Salvation), that of the worm that turns, so to speak. The historical angle and locations make for a fascinating story, even if its more brutal elements appear over familiar by now, and the happy ending seems tacked onto a running time that has already overstretched itself.
(Bastarden)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century, a Danish captain answers the king's call for settlement of Jutland and attempts to cultivate the unyielding soil. His efforts are seconded by a priest in need of a flock, and hindered by the local landowner jealous of his isolation.
Review:
Mikkelsen here takes the role for which his European work has made him famous (Michael Kolhaas, The Salvation), that of the worm that turns, so to speak. The historical angle and locations make for a fascinating story, even if its more brutal elements appear over familiar by now, and the happy ending seems tacked onto a running time that has already overstretched itself.
(Bastarden)
Country: DK/SV/NOR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century, a Danish captain answers the king's call for settlement of Jutland and attempts to cultivate the unyielding soil. His efforts are seconded by a priest in need of a flock, and hindered by the local landowner jealous of his isolation.
Review:
Mikkelsen here takes the role for which his European work has made him famous (Michael Kolhaas, The Salvation), that of the worm that turns, so to speak. The historical angle and locations make for a fascinating story, even if its more brutal elements appear over familiar by now, and the happy ending seems tacked onto a running time that has already overstretched itself.