Wicker review – Olivia Colman finds the perfect lover in intriguing folk-horror romance
It’s almost funny but not exactly, and almost disturbing but not exactly, occupying a strange and intriguing Venn-diagram overlap between macabre horror and sentimentality.
Key points
- Fortunately, Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker delivers the answer to her dreams – an Alexander Skarsgård made of wicker The spirit of mystery author Shirley Jackson is interestingly revived in this peculiar folk-horror romance, adapted from a 2006 story called The Wicker Husband by British writer Ursula Wills.
- Colman stars as a depressed and bullied fisherwoman in medieval England.
The scene is a fabular medieval-effect village that could be in central Europe or England, where there are bizarre patriarchal rituals, like the placing of metal collars on new brides.
Yet devotees of bucolic British screen-scariness will note that it is, after all, about a wicker man.
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