…reactions from HE regulars would be appreciated. $20 to rent a UHD version for 48 hours; $25 to buy it outright.
4.21.22 HE review excerpt: “Technically and compositionally first-rate, at times amusingly ultra-violent, The Northman delivers the kind of suffocating, soul-draining ordeal that only a major artist could have provided.
“I loved Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse but I pretty much felt nothing this time around.
“Excessive isn’t the word — startling, repetitious, numbing, eye-filling, confounding and yet all of a single harmonious compositional piece. Obviously the work of a serious artist. Handsome, exquisitely composed and about as bereft of humanity as a film in this vein could possibly be.”
