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Feb 1, 2024 · ‘The Promised Land’ Review: Coaxing Crops From a Wild Land. Mads Mikkelsen stars as a soldier with little money but big ideas who gets royal approval to try to conquer a vast shrubby expanse....
Jun 17, 2024 · ‘The Promised Land’ (2023) Stream it on Hulu. Mads Mikkelsen stars in this epic period drama as Capt. Ludvig Kahlen, described as “a presumptuous soldier in a flea-ridden uniform” — and that’s...
Dec 5, 2023 · The most gripping film about potato farming since The Martian, this Danish period epic has Mads Mikkelsen on imperious form as a former soldier on an impossible mission to cultivate the bleak and...
- Nikolaj Arcel
Feb 2, 2024 · 4 min read. “The Promised Land” is about ten movies in one. It’s a history lesson with a central figure driven by an impossible quest. There are bands of outlaws, sadistic aristocrats, and downtrodden peasants. There’s a little romance, a lot of torture, as well as a feisty runaway child.
Feb 15, 2024 · The Promised Land film review — old-school Western with a Danish twist. Director Nikolaj Arcel’s latest outing retraces the life of a low-born soldier played by Mads Mikkelsen. Mads Mikkelsen...
- Jonathan Romney
Sep 1, 2023 · ‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Smolders Magnificently in Nikolaj Arcel’s Gripping Historical Epic. The Danish director and star of the Oscar-nominated 'A Royal Affair' reteam on...
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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 ...