A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: KimStim
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Weasel Walter, Nick McMaster, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Lichens & Robert A.A. Lowe | |
| Directed by | Ben Rivers & Ben Russell | |
| Screenwriting by | Ben Rivers |
Entertainment Reviews:
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37%
Rating: 3/5 --
It is arresting in many ways and concerned to elucidate the experience of being on one's own. Is any other state possible?
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Guardian
A Spell finds their styles melding in the most fascinating ways. There has been a more reserved attitude in many of Rivers' films, a desire to hang back with patient curiosity, which is distinct from Russell's more agitated approach.
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Cinema Scope
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a film of contrasts - community and solitude, silence and primal noise, darkness and light - beautifully shot, wilfully slow and enjoyably baffling.
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Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
Arthouse cinema at is most challenging, pushing ethnographic fetishism and self-reflective analyses to the nadir of its cerebral appeal.
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CineVue
Rating: 3/5 --
As a rumination on existence, this never gets as deep or as insightful as it wants to.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 8.2/10 --
Watching one man's repeated upheavals of his life, combined with the two directors' excellent craftsmanship, evokes the feeling of something supernatural and, ultimately, transcendent.
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Way Too Indie
Landscapes and lyric conundrums distinguish the first two-thirds of this find-your-own-meaning artflick, which unfurls like some stranger's life you're half reliving.
Village Voice
Description by OLDIES.com:
Following through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort.
Keywords:
Concert
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Heavy Metal
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Wilderness
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Documentary
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Rock Bands
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Singers
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Musicians
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Islands
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Musical
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Norwegian
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Black Metal
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Asatruism
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Lichens
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Estonia
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Finland
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Doom
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pagan
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Scandinavian
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Shoegaze
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philosophical
Product Info
- UPC: 698452210636
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