Filmed amid Iceland’s unique, beautiful yet eerie landscape and impressed by way of that country’s folklore, The Rock of Ages creates a brilliant fable international in simply over quarter-hour—whole with a hapless protagonist you quickly notice you’re rooting in opposition to, and a pipe-smoking rock who no longer best talks, however swears like a sailor.
Shared by way of Short of the Week, this story from writer-director Eron Sheean makes nice use of its herbal environment mixed with suave puppetry and 2 very good performances: Tómas Lemarquis because the wild-eyed, fur-clad warrior, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (who’s quickly to look on season two of Severance) because the gruff voice of the rock.
Right here’s Sheean’s directorial statement, together with a wild mish-mash of inspirations: “The Rock of Ages is a surreal black comedy, a thought-provoking mutant love kid of Jim Henson, Terry Gilliam, and Ingmar Bergman (if he had been top on painkillers). It tells the tale of a misplaced Soldier (Tómas Lemarquis) and his come across with a crafty speaking rock (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) who guarantees him immortality. However as at all times with those bargains, there’s a catch. I used to be impressed to create a surreal delusion that explores the hubris of humankind—each our fleeting life within the face of nature, and our unwillingness to abide by way of its historical regulations.”
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