The tale of the Pied Piper has fascinated audiences for some 740 years, but will there ever be a good film about it? People keep trying and failing. This latest effort comes from Erlinger Thoroddsen and is most notable for its cast, featuring one of the last performances by the ill-fated Julian Sands and also starring Charlotte Hope, best known as Miranda from Game Of Thrones. It has big ambitions, building its story around the longstanding occult notion of using music to encode forbidden ideas, but misses the fact that whilst one of the joys of music is its sense of consequence, any successful symphony must present its audience with challenges and keep them guessing before reaching its conclusion.
There is no guesswork to be done here, in a film which takes the most obvious route right from its opening scenes, never missing a note. It opens with Katharine (Louise Gold...
There is no guesswork to be done here, in a film which takes the most obvious route right from its opening scenes, never missing a note. It opens with Katharine (Louise Gold...
- 3/8/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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