Nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations met around every sun-blighted corner. I’m “biast” (pro): love Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There’s clichés in them thar hills. A motherlode, even. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring’s (The Intended) Western is so unabashedly crammed with stereotypes and contrivances that it’s hard to see how anyone involved kept a straight face while shooting. (The character who is both preacher and sheriff is a particular unintended hoot.) The Salvation is nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: it’s all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations confirmed around every sun-blighted corner. It’s 1870, and cartoon villain Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: They Came Together) is running a protection racket in a...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There’s clichés in them thar hills. A motherlode, even. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring’s (The Intended) Western is so unabashedly crammed with stereotypes and contrivances that it’s hard to see how anyone involved kept a straight face while shooting. (The character who is both preacher and sheriff is a particular unintended hoot.) The Salvation is nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: it’s all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations confirmed around every sun-blighted corner. It’s 1870, and cartoon villain Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: They Came Together) is running a protection racket in a...
- 4/15/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Danish director Kristian Levring has already delved into the past, with his Malaysian-set period piece The Intended. Whereas that film was a languid, tropical piece, The Salvation is action-packed and arid.
The American West in the 1870s: Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) is at the train station to pick up his wife and young son, who he hasn’t seen in seven years. With him is his brother Peter (Mikael Persbrandt), who won’t be journeying on the stagecoach with the family, preferring to let his hair down in town. As soon as the journey gets underway the situation precipitates. Jon is hurled from the coach and as he follows its path he stumbles across the body of his son. When he reaches the stagecoach and kills the two men, it is too late: his wife has also been murdered. But Jon has killed the wrong man. He’s the brother of Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan,...
The American West in the 1870s: Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) is at the train station to pick up his wife and young son, who he hasn’t seen in seven years. With him is his brother Peter (Mikael Persbrandt), who won’t be journeying on the stagecoach with the family, preferring to let his hair down in town. As soon as the journey gets underway the situation precipitates. Jon is hurled from the coach and as he follows its path he stumbles across the body of his son. When he reaches the stagecoach and kills the two men, it is too late: his wife has also been murdered. But Jon has killed the wrong man. He’s the brother of Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan,...
- 5/21/2014
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green are trapped in a cycle of violent revenge in The Salvation. The film is a Danish Western that premieres soon at Cannes. And so, with the festival about to begin, the first The Salvation trailer has just hit, showing what director Kristian Levring (The King Is Alive, The Intended) has done with […]
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- 5/1/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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