![]() ![]() ![]() Somewhat languorous pace of Lamb, which may make some of what the film does spend time on seem somewhat peculiar. The fact that the first real "reveal" of the baffling hybrid lamb-human creature isn't given until around the 40 minute mark may indicate as well as Of subtext (which ultimately will be explained). Suggests that traveling to the past should be possible, too, and there's a clear aching quality to her comment that does have To be theoretically possible, but that he wouldn't want to travel to the future, since the present is so appealing. One of the very few dialogue scenes in this early part of the film has Ingvar mentioning that he has read that time travel has been Were not the product of CGI, and in fact were accomplished on the first day of shooting, which I'm sure really excited Rapace in Is some very graphic footage of Maria yanking various sheep newborns right out of sheep mothers (more cursory internet searching suggests these Which is apparently some months later (a cursory internet search suggests that sheep have around a five to six month gestation period), where In a cozy looking farmhouse Maria and Ingvar are enjoying a meal. ![]() The whole supernatural element actually doesn't really intrude until well into the film, unless one counts a brief but disturbing soundĪ radio broadcast wishes people a Merry Christmas and then launches into a prayer, as snow falls and a brief but unsettling sound of animal (?)īreathing wafts across the soundstage. Icelandic countryside and equally long, lingering shots of mundane activities like Ingvar feeding the couple's sheep or in fact Maria feeding Ingvar. Minute" horror outing, as I guess some people expected it to be, and is instead a very slow burn, filled with long, lingering shots of craggy And in fact this tale wouldĪlmost seem to be more pagan or folkloristic in ambience than anything. Simply goes with a thesis that a story revolving around grief, loss and potential salvation is inherently religious. Suggest there's some sort of religious subtext percolating beneath this patently odd plot, but if there is, it eluded this particular reviewer, unless one The whole emphasis on lambs and the fact that the film begins on Christmas (or perhaps Christmas Eve) might Perhaps saliently, then, Lamb features Rapace as an Icelandic woman named Mariaīarren landscape with her husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) and who finds herself "mother" to a bizarre lamb-human hybrid creature that isīorn in a stable on their property. Very close inter-species encounter of some kind. Noomi Rapace has one of those faces that might be perceived as just slightly alien looking, as if she may have been the product of a Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, March 17, 2022 ![]()
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