For years, Hollywood has presented stories based on the bible as epic, larger-than-life events. They’ve often been overly serious, occasionally dull, and rarely relatable. (Anyone remember the NBC ...

Mads Mikkelsen delivers a magnificent performance that brings life to a grim historical epic set in a familiarly harsh world. The film explores the flaws and complexities of its real-life protagonist, ...

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel about his latest movie, "The Promised Land," a historical drama set in the Jutland peninsula. The new film "The Promised Land" may have the ...

Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes up the ...

A new show cheekily adapts part of the biblical book of Exodus. God’s chosen people struggle to keep their faith—and a straight face—amid the laughable absurdities of life in the desert. Having ...

The Promised Land (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Nikolaj Arcel, written by Anders Thomas Jensen, Ida Jessen and Nikolaj Arcel and starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Gustav Lindh, Melina ...

Best known to American audiences as the principal villain in “Casino Royale” (2006) and the title character in the TV series “Hannibal” (2013–2015), Danish thespian Mads Mikkelsen is one of, if not ...

Another marvelous 2023 leftover, Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land,” Denmark’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar, has everything you want in an epic film: struggle, romance, period detail, ...