Search results
- This is the redemption of The Promised Land, both for its characters and its ultimate story — though it is not a masterpiece. Even with its beautiful cinematography and strong performances, something this violent, sad and long will struggle to keep audiences from cowering or yawning from start to finish.
www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/promised-land-mikkelsen-review-1.7109820The Promised Land is a true Mads Mikkelsen marvel — if you ...
People also ask
Is the Promised Land a good movie?
Is the Promised Land based on a true story?
Is the Promised Land a Western?
Where can I watch the Promised Land?
Does Mads Mikkelsen appear in 'the Promised Land'?
Did Mads Mikkelsen reunite with Nikolaj Arcel on 'the Promised Land'?
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) -- a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow.
- (129)
- Nikolaj Arcel
- R
- Mads Mikkelsen
Feb 15, 2024 · Nikolaj Arcel’s film fits the time-honoured genre codes perfectly. Notwithstanding the occasional periwig, it resembles those epic oaters once directed by the likes of John Ford or Anthony...
- Jonathan Romney
Dec 5, 2023 · The Promised Land makes for a gripping man-versus-wilderness survival story with unmistakable political undertones, but it’s also nimble enough to allow romance to blossom under its slate-grey...
- Nikolaj Arcel
Feb 2, 2024 · Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the 2020 novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara,” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the ...
Sep 1, 2023 · Mads Mikkelsen reunites with his 'A Royal Affair' director Nikolaj Arcel on 'The Promised Land,' a historical epic that plays like a Nordic Western.
Feb 15, 2024 · The year is 1755, and Kahlen, an army captain freshly demobbed from military forces in Germany, nurses the impossible dream of cultivating northern Jutland’s wild interior, where cruel winds and ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Entertainment·REVIEW. The Promised Land is a true Mads Mikkelsen marvel — if you have a strong stomach. The Promised Land, which releases in Toronto and Vancouver on Feb. 9, is an...