NorsePlay Reviews: The Northman.
The question we're confronted with is: Is The Northman the best Viking visual media yet made? Despite all the previous internet objections (for whatever that noise is worth), the bar for this is History Channel's inarguably successful Vikings (2013-2020 CE). Director Robert Eggers mixes the supernatural moments of magical realism from Vikings with the pastoral setting from Prince Of Jutland (1994 CE), while screenwriter Sjón pulls from the Icelandic tropes of When the Raven Flies (1984 CE), using Saxo Grammaticus' Amleth legend from Gesta Danorum: Deeds of the Danes as a baseline point and The Sagas of Icelanders as building blocks, all which make for a necessarily brutal & beautiful film. [model Ineta Sliuzaite rages through the sky as a valkyrie with her line-filed teeth!] [Note: Spoilers are about to occur ... but you read Hamlet in high school like everyone else, right?] For Heathens coming to this film, there...