Film Review: Wild Men is a tale of self-inflicted tragedy and derived authenticity

Rasmus Bjerg and Zaki Youssef make for a good double-act, one playing make-believe as a latter-day Viking, the other a small-time criminal
Film Review: Wild Men is a tale of self-inflicted tragedy and derived authenticity

Wild Men: a skewing of the toxic masculinity under the surface of Viking fetishisation

Fri, 06 May, 2022 - 15:00
Declan Burke

★★★★☆

Wild Men (15A) opens on Martin (Rasmus Bjerg) wandering through the Norwegian forest clad in deerskins and attempting to kill his dinner with a bow-and-arrow.

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