The Promised Land (2023) - Movie Review flickeringmyth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from flickeringmyth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Promised Land (2023) - Movie Review flickeringmyth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from flickeringmyth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ever since Sergio Leone talked Clint Eastwood into wearing a poncho for A Fistful of Dollars and invented the Spaghetti Western, filmmakers have been enthusiastically re-mixing the iconography of the American Frontier. In Mads Mikkelsen’s gritty, gripping Danish period drama The Promised Land, those cliches receive a cosy Scandi upgrade. Cancel the spaghetti: behold the Hygge Western.
Inspired by a true story about a retired 18th-century army captain turned farmer, Nikolaj Arcel’s brash drama is entertaining, if a little preposterous