Good Is in the Wood
The fantasy film follows a solitary fisherwoman whose sarcastic remark conjures a wicker husband and sets off gossip in a joyless village.
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Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård breathe life into this simple comedy about a woman who gets a braided man as a husband, much to the chagrin of the jealous village women.
This Wicker man burns up the bedroom in an odd, affecting fairy tale
Darkly funny and surprisingly moving (and not just on the bedframe), the romantasy fable Wicker is a delightful love story that unearths deeper feelings around belonging, security, and pleasure. It’s silly, sometimes odd, sometimes rather beguiling, but the story can occasionally nick a tender part of the heart that makes it all the more real despite its magical trimmings. The familiar fairy tale is slightly warped, very much for grownups, and a…
Good Is in the Wood
Wicker by Hope Madden Even if the Wicker trailer didn’t have you salivating over an Alexander Skarsgård shaped basket, this cast list should do it: Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, Richard E. Grant, and, of course, under a lot of titular twigs, Skarsgård. Writers/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson (Save Yourselves!) take full advantage of that cast to bring Ursula Wills’s short story “Wicker Husband” to silver scre…
A sexy man... all in wicker? What to sow chaos in the village! A soft and naughty fable, visually remarkable.
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