Now streaming is Thordur Palsson’s The Damned, an icy film for us to cuddle up while we hang on to these last couple months of winter. Hiding in the darkness of these long chilly nights are the ghosts of our past, haunting us with the guilt we harbor.
It is the dead of winter and the solstice promises longer days on the horizon. Until then, Eva (Odessa Young) and the crew of hungry fishermen drown their worries with steins of beer, sea shanties, and candle-lit ghost stories to muffle the sounds of their grumbling bellies. Just as the crew readies themselves for their next day at sea, hoping to fill their empty racks, a wrecked ship can be seen just off the shore–stuck in a formation of rocks referred to as “the teeth” as if the ocean the the mouth of a colossal monster waiting to swallow you up. They watch powerlessly, taking orders to not risk their own lives for the men drowning just beyond their reach, reminded that they lost Master Magnus, Eva’s late husband, to those very same rocks.
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xx – Vannah
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