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Film round-up: April 19, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews The Northman, The Lost City, Benedetta, and The Great Movement
The Northman (15)
Directed by Robert Eggers
★★★
AFTER his horrendous The Lighthouse (two hours I will never get back), director Robert Eggers returns with an epic and stomach-churning Viking tale which isn’t for the faint of heart.
Co-written by Eggers with Icelandic author Sjon, it centres on a young Viking prince’s (Oscar Novak) quest to avenge his father’s (Ethan Hawke) murder and save his mother (Nicole Kidman), from a story apparently based on the Danish 12th-century text which inspired Hamlet.
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