Valhalla Rising (2009)

[Ghoul]

novi film od tatka na pušeri (3 komada, sva 3 muška!) i bronsona (takođe mudovitog) - mada rivju najavljuje blago razočarenje, ipak... ja u refna verujem!

Valhalla Rising
(Denmark)
By DEREK ELLEY

A Scanbox (in Denmark)/Vertigo Distribution (in U.K.) release of a Nimbus Film presentation of a One Eye Prod. production, in association with Blind Eye Prods., La Belle Allee Prods., Scanbox Entertainment. (International sales: Wild Bunch, Paris.) Produced by Johnny Andersen, Bo Ehrhardt, Henrik Danstrup. Executive producers, Lene Borglum, Joni Sighvatsson, Mads Peter Ole Olsen, Thorir Sigurjonsson, Yves Chevalier, Carole Sheridan, Christine Alderson. Co-producer, Karen Smyth.

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Screenplay, Refn, Roy Jacobsen; additional writing, Matthew Read.


With: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Flanagan, Gary Lewis, Gary McCormack, Alexander Morton, Jamie Sieves, Ewan Stewart, Matthew Zajac.

A one-trick pony that rapidly wears out the considerable welcome of its first reel, "Valhalla Rising" is a grunge-and-gore Viking movie that, like its characters, spends most of its time going round in circles. Hopes that Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn would translate his passion for myth into a Viking epic worthy of the name are dashed by a script that's virtually devoid of plot and character development; the helmer's rep (the "Pusher" trilogy, "Bronson") will nudge the pic along the fest circuit, but most auds will find it a one-note turnoff, signaling B.O. more Nibelheim than Valhalla.

Movie opens like gangbusters, in full John Milius mode, with a storming intertitle -- "In the beginning there was only man and nature. Then men came bearing crosses and drove the heathen to the ends of the earth" -- whose promise is quickly fulfilled by a sequence of mano-a-mano fights to the death on a wild and woolly mountainside.

The chief protag is a mute, heavily scarred warrior, dubbed "One-Eye" (Mads Mikkelsen, "Casino Royale"), who, like Conan in his early days, is kept in a cage like an animal and only brought out to fight for money, by his Scottish owner, Barde (Alexander Morton). The most info ever imparted about him is that he came from across the ocean (presumably Scandinavia), from an equally violent past that's glimpsed throughout in One-Eye's blood-red memory flashes.

After fulfilling the prophecy that "he's never belonged to anyone for more than five years" by slaughtering his captors and disemboweling his owner, One-Eye sets off for home with a young boy (Maarten Stevenson), who acts as his voice. En route, however, they fall in with a handful of Christian Vikings who are planning to sail to Jerusalem to conquer the Holy Land. With the voyage and its surprising aftermath, the pic sails off into an unreal, almost fantastic world that seems dramatically at odds with the hyper-realism of the opening.

That would be fine if Refn showed any genuine feel for myth or heroism. But his idea of the latter seems to be outbreaks of slaughter, separated by endless thousand-yard stares by Mikkelsen and the rest of the cast. And his idea of fantasy -- perhaps dictated by shortage of coin -- seems to be one small boat in a foggy studio tank that makes Italo sword-and-sandal movies of the '60s look big-budget.

With very little dialogue, and even less plot, five chapter stops lend the movie a skeletal structure: "Wrath," "Silent Warrior," "Men of God," "The Holy Land" and "Hell." But any discussion of the Dark Ages conflict between paganism and Christianity is reduced to just grunts or insults.

The mute Mikkelsen cuts a fine figure in widescreen as the Man With No Name but Loads of Attitude. As the boy who speaks for him, Stevenson probably has the most dialogue, but delivers it without feeling. Other roles, mostly played by Scots, have few distinguishing features beyond brutality and plug-ugliness.

Deliberately color-drained DV lensing is cold even in the pic's few sunny sequences, and acts as a further monotonous damper on the film. Drone-metal synth soundtrack has all the subtlety of an ax splitting a skull.


Camera (Technicolor prints, widescreen, DV-to-35mm), Morten Soborg; editor, Mat Newman; music, Peter-Peter, Peter Kyed; production designer, Maurel Wear; costume designer, Gill Horn; sound (Dolby Digital), Cameron Mercer, Douglas MacDougall, Chris Sinclair; sound designer, Giles Lamb; casting, Des Hamilton. Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (noncompeting), Sept. 3, 2009. (Also in Toronto Film Festival — Special Presentations.) Running time: 90 MIN. (English dialogue)

[Shozo Hirono]

Čim je i Mikkelsen tu, Valhala će goreti!.

[Shozo Hirono]

Kad si već otvorio topike o Hercogu i Soloncu, i ovaj je mogao bi NFRefn Rising.

[Ghoul]

novi film od tatka na pušeri (3 komada, sva 3 muška!) i bronsona (takođe mudovitog) - mada rivju najavljuje blago razočarenje, ipak... ja u refna verujem!

http://ljudska_splacina.com/2010/02/valhalla-rising-2009.html

[Tex Murphy]

Solidno zvuči taj Refn, nadam se da je bolji od onih šarlatana s kojima ga porediš (Laugier, Noe).

[Meho Krljic]

Argh... trenutno je jedino dostupan neki jadan rip sa... turskim dabom?? Dođe mi da skinem čisto iz patriotizma.

[Le Samourai]

Valhalu Rajzing gledati ISKLJUCHIVO na velikom platnu, if at all possible.

Ali, ono, zaista. Nema ovih dana dovoljno ovakvih BIOSKOPSKIH iskustava kao shto je VR, shteta bi bila da se protraci na bilo kakvo kucno-bioskopsko pregledavanje.

[Meho Krljic]

Jebiga, moj HDTV sa dijagonalom od preko metar možda nije BAŠ bioskop, ali s obzirom da se to kompenzuje odsustvom potrebe da izlazim iz kuće i mogućnošću da ustanem kad god oću i odem da mokrim, onda... Plus, Valhalla Rising, to neće biti otkupljeno? Ček da proverim...

Edit: Aaaa, sad vidim da ga je Tak otkupio. Lepo, onda ću i da odem do bioskopa kad ga puste.

[Ghoul]

među popbox komentatorima, a ispod texta o valhali, javila se jedna zanimljiva inicijativa:
"Ognjanovica za ministra kulture!"

[mac]

Pravda za Ognjanovića!

[Ghoul]

šta će mi pravda ako sam ministar?! u tom slučaju sam IZNAD pravde...

[mac]

Vlast kvari ljude. Nesumnjivo ćeš pokušati malo da se oslastiš, i nesumnjivo će te uhvatiti jer ti ne idu te stvari. Ja unapred tražim pravdu za tebe, jer znam da nikad ne bi pokušao da zloupotrebiš položaj ako ga nemaš. To jest, pravda za tebe je da nisi na položaju.

[Ghoul]

solidan prikaz filma + odličan intervju sa refnom, by vladan petković:

http://cineuropa.org/ffocusinterview.aspx?lang=en&treeID=2086&documentID=135795

http://cineuropa.org/ffocusarticle.aspx?lang=en&treeID=2086&documentID=135794

[namsey]

cekam da izadje film sa originalnim zvukom. Ovo sto sam nasao je sa turskom sinhronizacijom 

[Vij]

Ja sam strpljiv,čekam kino!

[namsey]

Ja sam strpljiv,čekam kino!

pre cu se oteliti nego sto ga docekam...

[Kunac]

Danas sam pogledao film u bioskopu. Očekivao sam mnogo više. Valhala definitivno nije bila po mom ukusu, nije me "probudila". Previše praznog hoda, premalo akcije, uz to veoma pretenciozno.... Mads je odličan, fotografija i muzika takođe, sve otalo... Ko želi da proveri, ima svaki dan projekciju od 19h u DKC-u.

[crippled_avenger]

buđanje valhale

[Ghoul]

everything's alright with the world!

[WARLOCK]

i ja sam ocekivao vise,da su isekli pola filma bio bi zadovoljan,ne pamtim dugo kad sam se ovako bas smorio u bioskopu.

[Ghoul]

da je ko DAYBREAKERS - tome svakako nije ni prineti!

[ginger toxiqo 2 gafotas]

..na ovo ne treba trošiti mnogo reči - Winding Refn je očito poželeo da okrene novu stranu u svom opusu, to je njegovo pravo, ali BUĐENJE VALHALE je naprosto pretenciozna budalaština, arty-farty papzjanija koja se teško da podneti. Such a shame...

[namsey]

BUĐENJE VALHALE je naprosto pretenciozna budalaština, arty-farty papazjanija koja se teško da podneti.

ni sam nisam mogao lesphe opisati razocarenje. A toliko se ocekivalo od gluposti, ali ko je znao da cu se toliko smoriti...

[Ghoul]

it figures: kud 1, tu sva trojica.

[namsey]

sve je super u filmu, ali price nigde.
izme ti takav film. Svaka cast Mikelsenu, ali film se na misice ne moze izvuci...

[Ghoul]

priče!
svi bi hteli priče!
eno vam priče, u KNJIGAMA!
ovo je FILM.

(mada i on ima priču, naravno; ali treba je VIDETI)

[WARLOCK]

Film ima jednostavnu pricu gde mozes lako smestiti najvise 45 minuta filma..malo filozofije sporih kadrova razvuces na sat i po i kraj filma,snimio si za malo para imas celovecernji pa pravo na trziste,dobar potez.
Svidja mi se fotografija nekakva apokalipticna atmosfera
Steta od filma uvece u 7 Dkc  bilo je svega oko 10 ljudi.

[Ghoul]

Steta od filma uvece u 7 Dkc  bilo je svega oko 10 ljudi.

odlična prilika za ove što se vaćaju po bioskopskom mraku.
šteta što se ginger+kuncu nije dopao...
mislim, film.

[Le Samourai]

Valhalla Rising je vrsta filma zbog koje film postoji kao umetnost. Film ne mora nishta da pricha - ima dovoljno drugihumetnosti koje se time bave. Film mora da prikazuje, shto VR mocno i obilato chini.

Da je pretenciozan, jeste - naravno da jeste. Pretenciozan kao i svi istinski veliki filmovi. Pitanje je samo da li su njegove pretenzije sa pokricem - shto ohoho jesu.

[Ghoul]

Valhalla Rising je vrsta filma zbog koje film postoji kao umetnost. Film ne mora nishta da pricha - ima dovoljno drugihumetnosti koje se time bave. Film mora da prikazuje, shto VR mocno i obilato chini.

Da je pretenciozan, jeste - naravno da jeste. Pretenciozan kao i svi istinski veliki filmovi. Pitanje je samo da li su njegove pretenzije sa pokricem - shto ohoho jesu.

tako govore pravi rasno i evolutivno superiorni vikinzi!  

[Kunac]

Valhalla Rising je vrsta filma zbog koje film postoji kao umetnost. Film ne mora nishta da pricha - ima dovoljno drugihumetnosti koje se time bave. Film mora da prikazuje, shto VR mocno i obilato chini.

Da je pretenciozan, jeste - naravno da jeste. Pretenciozan kao i svi istinski veliki filmovi. Pitanje je samo da li su njegove pretenzije sa pokricem - shto ohoho jesu.

Tužna je ta umetnost koja postoji zbog ovakvog filma. Iako se ne radi o debaklu epskih razmera, određena doza režiserske kompetentnosti se ne može osporiti, Valhala je film koji se jedva može nazvati podnošljivim. Zapravo, kad bolje razmislim, u drugom delu film ukida razloge svog postojanja bombardujući gledaoca razvučenim i jalovim scenama tumaranja po pustarama i valjanja po blatu. Sva ta začudnost nekom verovatno izgleda bog-zna-kako arty i "visokoumno", ali ako želite kvalitetan film, Valhala zaista nema mnogo toga da ponudi. (Nabrojao sam već segmente koji mi se dopadaju - ali oni ne uspevaju da znatno porave sliku o filmu.) Ako se svemu tome dodaju hajpovanja filma (10/10 i slični nonsensi), gledalačko iskustvo je samo još više razočaravajuće. Uostalom, film je u bisokopima, koga kopka neka ode i proveri...

[namsey]

priče!
svi bi hteli priče!
eno vam priče, u KNJIGAMA!
ovo je FILM.

(mada i on ima priču, naravno; ali treba je VIDETI)

Koliko ja onako kao laik znam jedan od segmenata koji cine film jeste prica, sto bi englez rekao story telling.Davna su to bila vremena kada je film bio samo porektna slika koji je prikazivao neke segmente zivota ili sta je tada ljudima padalo na pamet da bi mogli da snime. Obican covek se pobunio jer je zeleo da vidi neku pricu na ekranu.
Ovde je prica vise nego suplja, a Lepo je Vorlok rekao, sve je to moglo da stane u 45 minuta i svi bi bilo zadovoljni.

[Ghoul]

ko zna, znaće: ko ne zna - neznaće.

[namsey]

I to shto kazes.
da bude manje rasprave

[Ghoul]

kim njumen je i ovakav i onakav kao pisac: odličan u kraćim stvarima, zamoran i nezanimljiv u romanima.

ali, kad se tiče filmova, tu je skoro pa nepogrešiv.
njegov NIGHTMARE MOVIES je jedna od 3-4 najbolje knjige o horor filmu koje sam čitao.

evo šta je kim reko o najboljem filmu ove godine (bar za sada):

Plot
A thousand years ago. One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen), an enigmatic, mute warrior-slave, is freed from captivity and falls in with a party of Christian Vikings who set out for the Holy Land but cross the wrong sea and reach America, where they are overwhelmed by the vast land and its potentially hostile inhabitants.

Review
Following the Pusher trilogy and Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn — Denmark's second-most committed auteur — turns away from contemporary criminality to deliver a dream of a Viking movie. Valhalla Rising is not the exercise in action-oriented ethnography we might expect from Mel Gibson (who has his own Norseploitation movie in the works) or a tricked-up genre film like Pathfinder (which it slightly echoes) or Outlander, but a hallucinatory, fable-like extrapolation from a single historical fact — a pile of stones on the Delaware shore, well away from where the rumoured Norse settlements in North America were supposed to be.

Mads Mikkelsen, with no dialogue, has to play a mystic archetype, and emerges as a monolithic screen presence, following his Casino Royale villain with another wonky-eye turn — a tethered god of violence who has psychic flashes of horrors to come. One-Eye is the film's lead, and an emotional tie with a boy (Maarten Stevenson) who becomes his sidekick marks him as a hero, but he could as easily be an immortal trickster guiding this band of venal, violent pilgrims to a realm where they can be appropriately punished. Shot in spectacular Scotland, Valhalla Rising has a gorgeous deep-focus look which harks back to the Vincent Ward of The Navigator and the Tarkovsky of Andrei Rublev. Here, the past is alien and hostile terrain, with people reduced to brutal, impulsive behaviour because their environment, while breathtaking, is unbearably savage.

A cast of battered-looking Vikings show frozen faces in close-up, but are mostly here to die in a horrible manner — felled by arrows, disembowelled with axes, smitten by the elements. But it's a slow, reflective film which builds from small physical details to a transcendent vision: Refn's crime movies are theatrical and shot through with fantasy, and this isn't an overly literal slice of horrible history. Many won't have patience for it, but it will pick up devotees who'll watch it over and over.

Verdict
Valhalla Rising gets into your mind and stays there. You can argue what, if anything, it's trying to say, but it is impressive cinema.


Reviewer: Kim Newman

jedino s čime se ne slažem je previše suzdržana ocena: 4/5
ali to je, verovatno, distanca zbog činjenice da film definitivno nije za svakoga, i da će osobe neistančanog ukusa svakako biti iritirane njegovim predivnim idiosinkrazijama (kao što se i na ovom topiku pokazalo).

[Tex Murphy]

i da će osobe neistančanog ukusa svakako biti iritirane njegovim predivnim idiosinkrazijama

Misliš dosadnošću?

[Ghoul]

osobe neistančanog ukusa će svakako predivne idiosinkrazije filma Valhalla Rising doživeti kao 'dosadnost', baš kao što će npr. odličnost muzike baha i betovena doživeti kao 'buku', ili lepote slika van goga kao 'mazarije'.

[Tex Murphy]

Dobri su ti umjetnici koje si nabrojao.

[crippled_avenger]

Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn ("Bronson," "Valhalla Rising") will shoot the neo-Western "Only God Forgives" this Summer in Asia reports The Playlist.

As previously reported, the story follows a Thai police lieutenant who settles his rivalry with a gangster in Thai boxing matches. Refn will pen, produce and direct the feature.

The news is surprising as back in February Refn revealed he had chosen the Ryan Gosling-led crime-noir "Drive" as his next project and dropped out of two high-profile films to do it - "Jekyll" with Keanu Reeves" and "The Dying Of The Light" with Harrison Ford.

"Drive", about a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver, was supposed to shoot before 'God' which would've filmed later in the year. Now it seems 'God' will come first as Gosling is currently busy filming a Steve Carrell comedy.

It's unsure if Refn will still pursue "Drive" or if it will drop off his list like those other two projects as he had previously committed to film "I Walk with the Dead" in Miami.

IFC Films will release Refn's viking drama "Valhalla Rising" on June 4th.

[дејан]

pojavio se: Valhalla.Rising.2009.DVDRip
bez turskog nadam se
linkovi na mestu

meho, pojavilo se i Valhalla Rising 2009 720p BluRay x264-AVCHD ((4.5GB))

[crippled_avenger]

e, da vidimo i to čudo

[Bobby Peru]

Podnošljiva slika...(mada opet nije to to, obzirom da je fotografija ovde jedan od ključnih segmenata...dakle...skidajte BR!)...Smorio sam se malo, jer sam, previše očekivao...Fotografija jeste prepredivna; zvuci savršeno pasuju; Mads je frajerčina i bez jednog oka; Akcionih scena ima dovoljno da mogu da ga sa uživanjem gledaju i oni koji ne vole artyFarty (samo će se jako smoriti na kraju k'o kad gledaju Hanekea); Dovoljno je darkerski fazon da mi se dopada čak i larpurlartizam, tako da ne mogu da kažem da je baš ono najgore pretenciozno sranjište;) Ipak, nešto malo priče mi ipak fali...mislim da nije za "film godine", nije za svačije oči i nije vredan baš tooolike pažnje

[Kunac]

Ne očekujte previše. Ja sam film overio u bioskopu i bio mi je na granici gledljivosti.

[crippled_avenger]

Wonder Woman
Though not linked to the long in development comic adaptation in any way as yet, Nicolas Winding Refn ("Valhalla Rising," "Bronson") has told The BBC that he "always wanted to do 'Wonder Woman' as a feature film... I would say that Wonder Woman is probably something that, to me, would be not just a satisfaction, but almost a [catharsis], and I was born to make it."

First on his schedule through is the Bangkok-set Western "Only God Forgives" and the Ryan Gosling neo-noir thriller "Drive".

[Alex]

Rekao bih da je enormno prehvaljivanje ovog filma posledica nekompetentnosti.

[Azazel92]

Odgledao sam film...ocena 10/10....Skoro najbolji art film u poslednjih 10 godina (samo mi je Mullholand Drive bolji).

[Kunac]

Mullholand Drive je remek-delo. Višeslojno, raskošno, zavodljivo i zagonetno. Sve ono što Valhala nije.

[The Thing]

Sam soundtrack je dovoljan za uzivanje u ovom filmu a daleko od toga da mu je on jedini kvalitet. Jedan od najboljih filmova koje sam imao sreću da odgledam u bioskopu. Obavezno skinuti BluRay rip.

[Tex Murphy]

Mullholand Drive je remek-delo. Višeslojno, raskošno, zavodljivo i zagonetno.

I ima jednu od najboljih scena seksa EVER.

[Savajat Erp]

сад сам га скинуо, и слика је прилично добра, узео сам ове шерове од по 200 МБ, еве ође...

http://www.sswarez.com/dvd-rips/121480-valhalla-rising-2009-dvdrip.html