http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/
I watched this movie on Netflix over the weekend and I have to say it was one of the weirdest movies I have seen in a long time. But, I really liked it. Beautifully shot with lots of stunning scenery.
Mads Mikklesen plays One Eye, a prisoner in a Viking camp who is forced to fight to the death with other prisoners, he escapes, ends up with some Viking Christians who think they are headed to Jerusalem to help in the crusades, they get lost at sea and end up in a place they don't understand.
Mikklesen is great even though he doesn't have one single word of dialogue in the entire movie (he has lost an eye and is mute from scars taken in battle over the years) he carries this movie.
Shot and structured almost like an art house indie movie it has some scenes of extreme violence but they work to illustrate the lifestyle these people lived.
Weird, very weird and a lot probably wouldn't enjoy it but I really liked this movie. Not your run of the mill arty farty movie because of the subject matter and the, very few, scenes of stark violence, and not your run of the mill Viking movie either because of the cerebral nature of the movie.
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