With The Witch and The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers has become one of the most exciting contemporary genre directors. For his third feature film The Northman he received a lush budget of almost 100 million dollars available to realize a revenge epic.
The bloody Viking action has pretty much gone under in the cinema. You can do that for that visually stunning trip, which made it into our top 25 of the best films of 2022, can now catch up with the WOW streaming subscription. *
In the video, Yves also celebrates The Northman as one of the best films of the last year:
The Northman: One of the BEST movies of the year
The Northman unleashes revenge inferno with bloody action and bizarre interludes
In the story of the film, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) wants the death of his father Avenge King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) and free his mother, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), from the prison of the murderer (Claes Bang), who is also his uncle. On his vendetta he meets Olga (Anya Taylor-Joy), who has magical powers.
The Northman grossed just under $70 million worldwide, making the film a flop. Robert Eggers’ excessive vision was probably too unwieldy for a mass audience, because the director mixes bloody action à la Vikings with his film regular art house bonds in the form of surreal sequences and bizarre interludes.
Along with the usual perfectionist attention to detail by Eggers and the star cast, The Northman becomes a visually stunning revenge frenzy that you should definitely give it another chance.
The 10 biggest streaming films of 2023 on Netflix, Amazon & Co.
In this installment of our Moviepilot podcast, Stream Browsing, we take a look at the big movies coming exclusively to Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Apple TV+ this year. The result is a list of ten special recommendations.
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From the sci-fi epic to the potential Oscar nominee, everything is included. The talents gathered are particularly impressive. In 2023 we can expect new movies from Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Zack Snyder in the streaming space, while Gal Gadot, Leonardo DiCaprio, Henry Cavill and Chris Hemsworth will be in front of the camera.
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