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A prickly, positively delightful mature fairy tale starring Olivia Coleman as an engaging “Fisherwoman” and Alexander Skarsgard as “Wicker Husband”; writers/directors Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson and Ursula Wills designed a period piece “tailored” to proselytize a man’s superiority in domination of, a lifetime of skullduggery, a woman’s destiny. Fisherwoman gives short shrift to these niggardly precepts and hires “Basket Weaver,” Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) to fashion an appropriate mate for her. Oh, a man totally in love, infatuated with his wife, she is the reason “he lives and breathes”; their intimacy inspires envious thoughts from the townsfolk. The “Tailor”, played with subtle empowerment by Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”, “The Night Manager”) an enforcer of archaic, macho entitlement, is stunned by Wicker Husband’s pure and uncomplicated devotion. Their togetherness was problematic for the limited-minded, dim-witted villagers.
Calamity strikes; Wicker Husband’s flammability is a metaphor, signaling a weakening of respect, untoward rumors rendering legitimacy to the illegitimate. But wonderfully worthy of culminating in a “happily ever after”.
FOUR STARS!!!!
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