Anthony Lane reviews “The Duke,” starring Jim Broadbent as an unlikely art thief, and “The Northman,” a viking epic featuring Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård.
The British film director Roger Michell died last year. His death was sudden and premature: he was only sixty-five. By all accounts a kindly soul, full of wise counsel, he has been much mourned; according to Kate Winslet, who worked with him on “Blackbird” , he was “the master of no fuss.” “The Duke,” one of his most genial features, turned out to be his last.
Enter the duke. The Duke of Wellington, that is, whose portrait, by Goya, has recently been acquired by the National Gallery, for a sizable sum that Bunton believes should have been spent on more honorable causes. Thus, a plan is hatched. Bunton goes to London. The painting—“It’s not very good, is it?” he says—is stolen overnight, smuggled to Newcastle, and stashed in a wardrobe.
Exhibit A: Jeremy Hutchinson, the barrister who defends Kempton . He is played by Matthew Goode, an actor whose sleek demeanor can seem like a protective shell. Here, however, that very suavity becomes a weapon, gracefully wielded in tandem with his client’s cussedness. When Hutchinson sits down, having made his final pitch to the jury, the prosecutor—his opposite number—looks across at him and smiles, as if to say, “Beautifully done, you bastard.
Blood, mud, iron, fire, decapitated horses, and more blood: such are the main components of “The Northman,” a new movie from Robert Eggers. It’s a gutsy piece of work, not only in the reach of its ambition but also in its willingness to show us actual guts. We are in the era of the Vikings, one of whom is our hero.
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