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There is need of light when one’s memories are dark, as I know to my cost. All day I have been prey to ugly, dismal thoughts. Yet I have so much to rejoice over: the warm sunny weather, the broad vista, the gentle cries of the birds and the pups calling from the seal colony, sounding for all the world like human babes.”
Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale (trans. Victoria Cribb)
Every book is imbued with the human spirit . . .
Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale
Have you read From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón (orig. Rökkurbýsnir, 2008)?
yes
no
I didn't finish it
I've never heard of it
and I breathed it in...
Not far from the city I had a secret refuge, a small cove that I liked to visit at the kindling of the morning star. At that hour there was nothing more translucent under heaven than the shallow sea between the rocks. The seabed was everywhere visible and the water, blue as an eye, grew lighter the closer you got to the surface, until it turned green, then vanished—and I breathed it in.
It was there that the god found me.
– Sjón, The Whispering Muse (Sceptre, March 5, 2020) (via Last Tambourine)
LAMB (2021)
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson Cinematography: Eli Arenson
The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers).
Not unlike Shakespeare’s seminal tragedy Hamlet, in which this medieval Scandinavian legend of Amleth was a direct inspiration, the primal film is an epic mythical retelling of royal betrayal familiar to audiences but with more naked berserker fights maybe. Starring Alexander Skarsgård as the title character, a Viking prince on a quest to avenge the murder of his king father, the lore is told stylishly and rather violently as bloodlines are crossed in the name of power.
Anya Taylor-Joy co-stars as a Slavic sorceress slave grounding the brutal action in between wildly bloody fight scenes with a tender warmth to her performance. Add Nicole Kidman portraying Amleth’s treacherous queen mother and the cast is filled with A-list performers absolutely hamming it up in the name of a poetic Norse legend.
Final screenings at the Rio Theatre on July 12 & 19.
Lamb is available on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray for $34 each exclusively via A24. It’s the first in a new line of physical media releases from A24. The 2021 Icelandic folk horror drama is currently available on VOD.
Valdimar Jóhannsson makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Sjón (The Northman). Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, and Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson star.
The disc is housed inside a 6x9 slipcase with an 80-page booklet featuring production design sketches and character art, storyboard excerpts, and behind-the-scenes photos.
Lamb is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR and Icelandic DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound with English subtitles. Special features are listed below.
You ever watch a movie that feels like it beat you up and took your lunch money? Yeah, me too.
