Hannibal - season 3 (2015) - Fuller's show descends into murky nonsense

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Title star Mads Mikkelsen lures from an ominous dark alley on this suggestive poster for Bryan Fuller's Hannibal - season 3

Hannibal - season 3 is created by Bryan Fuller (Heroes (2006-09)), based on Thomas Harris' (Carri Mora (2019)) novels Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999)) and Hannibal Rising (2006).  

The following contains SPOILERS.

The season opens very confusingly in Paris, and then in Florence, as psychologist/cannibal Hannibal Lecter has mysteriously moved his own psychologist Bedelia in to live with him there. The status and whereabouts of Will Graham, the FBI agent on his tail, is uncertain.

Lecter continues to play husband and wife with Bedelia in Italy, with the precise reason for her accommodating him eluding illumination. FBI Behavioral Unit leader Jack Crawford turns up, as Hannibal has claimed another victim and beats him up. He attacks back and is put in jail.

Now Francis 'the Tooth Fairy' Dollarhyde murders an entire family back in the US and befriends a blind woman, and Jack and Will turn to Hannibal for advise on catching him. Instead of helping, Hannibal turns Dollarhyde onto Will's family. 

More carnage ensues, and Will releases Hannibal in order to catch Dollarhyde, but this also results in a blood bath and death.

The previously compelling show comes apart in what is likely its most literarily focused season. The central Dollarhyde/Red Dragon story line reminds us that both Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986) and Brett Ratner's Red Dragon (2002) told this menacing story better.

Obfuscation defines large parts of season 3, which also outwears its welcome with more or less pretentious, spacey, high-brow artsy sequences that come across as lethargic nonsense (and snooze-worthy.) Gloomy dark visuals and extended use of near whispered dialog doom the show, despite gory details and an intense, dream-like score (by Brian Reitzell (Relic (2020))). A sub-plot about real-life, never-caught Italian serial killer 'Il Mostro' surely flies over most audiences' heads in episode 2. Thematically, the series turns around the delicious vs the revolting and delves into the mind's disintegration into madness.

The last season of Hannibal is macabre but long, unengaging and sleep-inducing. Its strange allure may lend it a hypnotizing quality, but not in a good way.

 

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Hannibal Lecter franchise: Hannibal - season 2 (2014) - More twisted twists in Fuller's busy baccanale 

Hannibal - season 1 (2013) - Fuller successfully introduces network TV to twisted serial killers 

Hannibal Rising (2007) - Harris returns famed cannibal in sub-par origins flick

Hannibal (2001) - Grisly highlights in low-yielding Scott sequel 

Manhunter (1986) - Perhaps the best criminal profiling picture ever 

 

Watch a trailer for the season here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: None - TV-series

= Uncertain

[Hannibal season 3 was first shows from 4 June - 29 August on NBC and runs 13 episodes of on average 44 minutes, coming to approximately 572 minutes. Shooting took place from around October 2014 in Toronto, Ontario and in Italy. The season's highest rating came on episode 1 (2.57 mil.), but the ratings then slipped, and the lowest rating came on episode 12 (0.79 mil. ). The loss of viewers led to NBC canceling the show. IMDb's users have rated the film in at #236 on the site's TV Top 250 list, sitting between Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal (1999, miniseries) and The Rehearsal (2022-). The season was nominated for an Emmy. Fuller returned with American Gods (2017-21). In 2015 Mikkelsen also starred in Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015) and in Rihanna: Bitch Better Have My Money (2015, music video), returning theatrically in Doctor Strange (2016). Hannibal season 3 is certified fresh at 98 % at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Hannibal - season 2 (2014) - More twisted twists in Fuller's busy baccanale

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Hugh Dancy is locked away with extreme prejudice on this bright poster for the second season of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

FBI special investigator Will Graham has been placed in a psychiatric hospital and is suspected in several murder cases. Though in an impaired state, Graham is grappling with the understanding that his former psychiatrist and confidante Hannibal Lecter may be the real culprit.

Hannibal is a horror/crime TV-series created by Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me (2003-04)), based on Thomas Harris' (Black Sunday (1975)) Hannibal Lecter novels, Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999) and Hannibal Rising (2006).

The second season opens with a long and very violent fight between FBI agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne (Contagion (2011))) and Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen (The Three Musketeers (2011))), before it jumps back some months to Will's (Hugh Dancy (Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011))) incarceration, and an internal FBI investigation looking at whether Crawford pushed his detective into becoming a mass murderer. FBI agent Beverly Katz (brilliantly played by Hettienne Park (Don't Look Up (2021))) is taking a big risk in seeking out truths in Lecter's basement, and regrettably ends her days as a consequence.

Now a rather absurd menáge à trois plot comes to life, between Will, his girlfriend Alana Bloom and Lecter, as Will gets out of the hospital and doesn't effectively move his suspicions against Lecter out of his head and into real-world action. Instead he descends into murderous madness and discussions of death and God with his unhealthy therapist.

The plot gets entangled to the point of confusion. The final episode leads us back to the fight in the first episode, more confusing character developments and a culmination that can most aptly be described as an orgiastic death climax. A final cliffhanger scene sees Will on a plane with Lecter's former psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier.

There are plenty of bodies and disturbing, yet fascinating aestheticized horrors in season 2, including a human mural, a lobotomizing acupuncturist murderer (Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction (1994)) is the show's first female murderer), a flower murderer (!), a murderer who dresses up as an extinct bear (!!) and a bird buried inside a woman buried inside a horse (!!!), but the highlight may be when Mason Verger (Michael Pitt (The Dreamers (2003)) in a dashing performance as the pig-obsessed maniac) is led by Lecter to cut his own face off, under the influence of drugs (episode 12: Tome-wan). The gory, odd gimmicks are sick details on top of the underlying trove of psychopathy and the erratic workings of the human mind that are the central thematic playing ground for Hannibal.

Regrettably the plot gets drawn out from episode 5 onward, as it seems to become too thick, too unlikely and too much, the universe becomes too narrow in a sense, and at the same time dramatically somewhat insufficient. Intrigues are injected that seem to mainly be there to prolong the story for the necessary length. The series stumbles. As Graham and Lecter's therapy begins again, I couldn't help but start to zone out a bit.

 

Best episode:

 

Episode 2: Sakizuke - written by Jeff Vlaming (Teen Wolf (2011, TV-series)), Fuller; directed by Tim Hunter (American Horror Story (2011, TV-series))

A yucky episode, in which Graham recollects disturbing goings-on at the hands of Dr. Lecter, and Hannibal's own therapist (Gillian Anderson (The X-Files (1993-18)) is glorious as the self-medicated, blond cougar Du Maurier) ends their sessions and seeks out Will. Meanwhile Hannibal locates the season's new murderer. 

 

Related posts:

 

Hannibal Lecter franchise: Hannibal - season 1 (2013) - Fuller successfully introduces network TV to twisted serial killers 

Hannibal Rising (2007) - Harris returns famed cannibal in sub-par origins flick

Hannibal (2001) - Grisly highlights in low-yielding Scott sequel 

Manhunter (1986) - Perhaps the best criminal profiling picture ever 

 

Watch a 1-minute clip from the season here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: None - TV-series

= Uncertain

[Hannibal season 2 was first shows from 28 February - 23 March on NBC and runs 13 episodes of on average 44 minutes, coming to 572 minutes. Fishburne was reportedly paid 175k $ per episode, totaling 2.275 mil. $. Shooting took place from August 2013 - ? in Ontario, including in Toronto. The season's highest rating came on episode 1 (3.27 mil.), but the ratings then slipped, and the lowest rating came on episode 11 (1.95 mil. ). The season averaged 2.54 mil. US viewers, down 12 % from the first season. It was renewed for season 3 (2015). IMDb's users have rated the film in at #215 on the sites TV Top 250 list, sitting between Mob Psycho 100 (2016) and Community (2009). In 2014 Mikkelsen also starred in The Salvation; Dancy was not in anything else; and Fishburne was in Ride Along, The Signal and Rudderless. Hannibal season 1 is certified fresh at 98 % with a 9.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Hannibal - season 1 (2013) - Fuller successfully introduces network TV to twisted serial killers

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+ Best Cannibal Title of the Year + Best Crime Thriller of the Year + Best New TV-series of the Year + Best Psychological Horror of the Year

 

Mads Mikkelsen dressed to the nines wipes his mouth with a fancy cloth as the title character on this poster for the first season of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

 

FBI Special Investigator Will Graham is initially hunting a killer of girls, as he initiates contact to noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter for insights, and the good doctor is only too keen to assist him, although he carefully keeps certain details of his life away from Graham ...

 

Hannibal is a horror/crime TV-series created by Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me (2003-04)), based on Thomas Harris' (Black Sunday (1975)) Hannibal Lecter novels, Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999) and Hannibal Rising (2006).

The show establishes its really icky, unnerving tone in its pilot (Aperitif), in which we witness Graham's investigative technique of putting himself in the mind of the killer with closed eyes, imagining that he is doing the horrific killings himself. By the second episode, in which young, red-headed, scrupulous journalist Freddie Lounds (played by the beautiful Lara Jean Chorostecki (X Company (2015-17))) is also introduced, we have already been dealing with two bizarre serial killers, - beside the doctor himself, whose homicidal tendencies and cannibalistic tastes will be known to most viewers beforehand and are mostly teased to us in the show, as in dinner scenes with Special Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne (Apocalypse Now (1979))), where Lecter serves Crawford suspicious delicacies. Crawford's beautiful wife (Gina Torres (Suits (2011-18)) later starts therapy at Lecter, and the couple are quite moving, when Crawford learns that she has overcome lung cancer without telling him about it.

The show is very dark, and it comes to a dark climax in episode 4 (Oeuf), in which a woman manipulates kidnapped teens into murdering their families! By and by we come to narrow in on the central serial killer of the season, the so-called Chesapeake Ripper, and could he be Eddie Izzard's (Ocean's Thirteen (2007)) incarcerated Dr. Abel Gideon?

Shrinks often have their own shrinks, as we already know, and Lecter's is Gillian Anderson's (Tristram Shandy (2005)) delectable Bedelia Du Maurier, whose doctor-patient confidentiality clause later becomes a point of contention, as Lecter becomes a person of interest in connection to more than one murder case.

Lecter hides from Graham that he is suffering from a brain infection, which causes him to have blackouts. SPOILER In the final episode such a blackout proves disastrous for Graham, as he wakes up coughing an ear up, with blood under his fingernails, getting him locked away in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane!

Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt/Jagten (2012)) first struck me as very Danish as Dr. Lecter, and the pace of the show somewhat rushed. The plot is strange and far detached from any reality audiences will be used to, but it strikes a handsome, nightmarish tone. It takes a while to get into the show's creepy thrills, but I was there by episode 7, especially as the weird triangle of trust between Graham, Lecter and Du Maurier begets suspense. Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy (Our Idiot Brother (2011)), - whose youthfully pretty face actually works against him in a character as heavy and adult as Graham, - and Fishburne all turn in formidable work. Graham's character is constructed carefully and credibly.

The show has a phenomenal grip on digital effects, lighting and photography, which is sublime, always pushing the gross and nauseating plot details to our subconscious examinations. (Cinematography by James Hawkinson (Running Wilde (2010, TV-series)) and Karim Hussain (Ascension (2002)).) It ends on a real high note with a terrific cliffhanger. There hasn't really been a TV-series like it before: Hannibal slow-burns its way assuredly towards goosebumps, nightmares and a strong viewer investment in its horrific plot.

 

Best episodes:

 

Episode 8: Fromage - written by Fuller, Jennifer Schuur (Hellcats (2010-11)); directed by Tim Hunter (Glee (2011, TV-series))

A male couple, who are both violent and homicidal, go through the hands of Lecter and Graham, whose mental stability is under pressure. SPOILER Hannibal kills both the men after a wild battle, and hides the fact from Graham.

 

Episode 9: Trou Normand - written by Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher (2017-19)); directed by Guillermo Navarro (Narcos (2015, TV-series))

A nauseating human totem (!) is discovered, and Lance Henriksen (Hard Target (1995)) plays the psycho culprit. But the episode is more about Graham's instability and a young woman, the daughter of a now defeated monster, whose own sins are buried by Lecter and Graham collectively.

 

Episode 13: Savoureux - written by Fuller, Lightfoot, Scott Nimerfro (Pushing Daisies (2007-08)); directed by David Slade (Hard Candy (2005))

Graham further incriminates himself, - or someone does it for him?, - in connection to the presumed murder of Abigail Hobbs. He is locked away, while his girlfriend suspects that a physical ailment is in play, and Graham himself gets closer and closer to realizing the true, horrific capabilities of his psychiatrist, Dr. Lecter.

 

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2013 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED VI]

Hannibal Lecter franchise: Hannibal Rising (2007) - Harris returns famed cannibal in sub-par origins flick

Hannibal (2001) - Grisly highlights in low-yielding Scott sequel 

Manhunter (1986) - Perhaps the best criminal profiling picture ever

 

Mikkelsen and Dancy on the red carpet in a short clip here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: None - TV-series

= Uncertain

[Hannibal season 1 was first shown from 4 April - 20 June on NBC and runs 13 episodes of on average 44 minutes, coming to 572 minutes. Fishburne was reportedly paid 175k $ per episode, totaling 2.275 mil. $. Shooting took place from August 2012 - ? in Ontario, including in Toronto. The season's highest rating came on episode 2 (4.38 mil.), but the ratings then slipped, and the lowest rating came on the final episode (1.98 mil. ). The season averaged 2.9 mil. US viewers. It was renewed for season 2 (2014). IMDb's users have rated the film in at #215 on the sites TV Top 250 list, sitting between Mob Psycho 100 (2016) and Community (2009). In 2013 Mikkelsen also starred in Charlie Countryman and Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas; Dancy with voice performances in Poe and Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return; and Fishburne in The Colony, Man of Steel and Khumba. Hannibal season 1 is certified fresh at 82 % with a 7.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Charlie Countryman/The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013) - LaBeouf trips in Romania in commercial director's hollow blunder

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+ Career-Killer of the Year: Shia LaBeouf

 

 

A man falls from the running mascara of a massive woman's eye on this artistic poster for Fredrik Bond's Charlie Countryman

Charlie's mother dies of cancer, whereupon her spirit tells young Charlie that he should go to Bucharest, Romania. Without real purpose he travels there and falls in love with the wife of a gangster.

Charlie Countryman is written by Matt Drake (Project X (2012)) and directed by debuting commercial director Fredrik Bond (The Mood (2004, short)).

Bond must have bet that a sufficiently cute lead would bar the audience against asking questions of Charlie's inscrutable dispositions, but I for one did ask questions despite Shia LaBeouf's (Nymphomaniac (2013)) attractiveness. We know next to nothing about Charlie and his headlong journey to Romania, a country that seems uniformly horrible here, and he is impossible to identify with. All the characters around him are thin sketches, and several of the actors struggle with the vagueness. It doesn't raise the already strained level of authenticity that Evan Rachel Wood (Barefoot (2014)) is playing a Romanian; and Mads Mikkelsen (After the Wedding/Efter Brylluppet (2006)) an unspecified brute named Nigel; but LaBeouf is committed - and has great hair, (although we already knew that.)

But Charlie Countryman is involuntarily comical; it is so obvious as a commercial gun's somewhat pretentious and very hollow, futile attempt at a light and yet deep and visually striking fantasy, which also transcends genres, (it would have been an impressive feat if pulled off, surely.) Bond's film instead reeks of beginner's firsts and holds no great insights into film or the 'rules' of the medium.

Think of Charlie Countryman as Tom Tykwer's 17 year-old son's Romanian ecstasy movie. It is basically LaBeouf's romanian acid trip, deservedly the butt of a joke.

 

Related post:

 

2013 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED VI]

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 443k $

= Uncertain, but undoubtedly a box office disaster

[Charlie Countryman premiered 21 January (Sundance Film Festival) and runs 103 minutes. The project was moved forward due to LaBeouf's fondness of the script. Shooting took place from May 2012 - ? in Chicago, Illinois and Bucharest, Romania. LaBeouf actually ingested LSD for realism in the scene where his character is on acid. The film opened #72 to a 7k $ first weekend in 15 theaters in North America, where it grossed 11k $ (2.5 % of the total gross). Its 3 biggest markets were Russia with 340k $ (76.7 %), France with 35k $ (7.9 %) and the UK with 19k $ (4.3 %). If made on a very low budget of 5 mil. $ (10 mil. $ is more likely), the film would rank as a box office disaster with a projected return of just 0.08 times its cost. The-Numbers.com estimate the film's domestic home video sales at 332k $. Bond has stuck with making commercials since, but is announced to direct soccer drama Fearless. LaBeouf returned in Nymphomaniac (2013). Charlie Countryman is rotten at 27 % with a 4.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Riders of Justice/Retfærdighedens Ryttere (2020) - Jensen delivers another explosive charge of idiosyncratic entertainment

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+ Best Action Comedy of the Year + Best Revenge Movie of the Year 

 

Four armed men and a teenage girl are standing in a barn on the smile-inducing poster for Anders Thomas Jensen's Riders of Justice

 

Marcus returns from active soldier's duty far away, when his wife's life ends in a mysterious train accident. He struggles to meet their teenager daughter eye to eye, when a couple of strange men turn up to tell him that the accident was no accident.

Riders of Justice is written and directed by great Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights/Blinkende Lygter (2001)) with Nikolaj Arcel (Klatretøsen (2002)) contributing story elements.

We are back in classic Jensen turf with a male-dominated story with deformity, pent-up anger, violence and the randomness of existence on the menu. Riders of Justice is a hilarious comedy; it also has a couple of genuinely moving scenes, impressive in their far-out action-comedy context, featuring the mesmerizing talent of Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt /Jagten (2012)) as the beleaguered Marcus and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Kandidaten (2008)) as his new friend Otto, who has gone through a similar ordeal in losing his wife. There is a framing story on the film about a bicycle purchase in Estonia, which is also very neat and finally also moving, helped along by the power of music. (In this case Nicolas Bro (Dræberne fra Nibe (2017)) on a French horn (!), which sounds beautiful!!)

The film is punchy and doesn't duck neither action nor dramatically related scenes and dialog. The world is a dark and ruthless place, but it packs both good and bad. The plot may be said to have more than its fair share of incredible coincidences; but on the same time the conclusion of it cleverly implies that even incredible coincidences do not point to correlations or meanings, necessarily. SPOILER Randomness is the guiding principle often in life, and in this case Marcus and his team kill countless (terrible) criminals based on a faulty deduction of facts.

Personally I still relish Jensen's preceding film most in his body of work, the outrageously weird and funny Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015), but Riders of Justice is strictly speaking just as good, especially due to the rich gallery of characters that are invoked: Bro as the obese face recognition expert and guns enthusiast; Gustav Lindh (All Inclusive (2017)) as a kind and wise Ukranian trafficking victim who comes under the team's wings; and Lars Brygmann (King's Game/Kongekabale (2004)), who arguably takes the cake as an abuse victim hacker with extraordinary abilities and issues. Andrea Heick Gadeberg (Daniel/Ser Du Månen Daniel (2019)) carries her weight effortlessly as Marcus' strong daughter.

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Men & Chicken/Mænd & Høns (2015) - Jensen scores with hilarious cinema bizarro original

The Salvation (2014) - Classic western yarn meets Danish dynamite (co-writer)
Love Is All You Need/Den Skaldede Frisør (2012) - Bier strikes gold with Italy-set romcom (co-writer)
In a Better World/Hævnen (2010) - Bier's Big Moral Drama lives on its actors' performances (co-writer)
Sprængfarlig Bombe (2006) - The two Jensens' satire is unrefined but hilarious (writer) 
Murk/Mørke (2005) or, Shutter Jutland (co-writer)

The Green Butchers/De Grønne Slagtere (2003) - Great performances in Jensen's hilarious morbid comedy 
Open Hearts/Elsker Dig for Evigt (2002) - Bier's excruciating Dogme chamber drama (writer)

Grev Axel (2001) - Frödin and Gråbøl pull laughter from 18th century-set crazy-comedy (writer) 

The King Is Alive (2000) - Levring's trying desert theatrics (co-writer) 

 

 

Watch a short clip of Brygmann as Lennart from the film here

 

Cost: 39 mil. DKK, approximately 6.24 mil. $

Box office: 2.4 mil. $ and counting

[Riders of Justice was released 19 November (Denmark) and runs 116 minutes. Shooting took place in Funen, Denmark. The film sold 125k tickets in its first weekend in Denmark, where it has topped 150k tickets after less than 10 days and is poised to exceed 750k tickets in coming weeks in the languished China Virus film landscape, possibly becoming Jensen's top-grossing film to date. Due to the pandemic the film does not have releases scheduled in foreign markets yet. Jensen does not have his next project announced yet. Mikkelsen returns in Chaos Walking (2021); Kaas does not have his next gig announced yet. 619 IMDb users have given Riders of Justice a 8.4/10 average rating.]

 

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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013) - Mikkelsen simmers in stern historical drama

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Mads Mikkelsen with silvery hair, a sword and a sheepskin in a dramatic landscape on the poster for Arnaud des Pallières' Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

 

Kohlhaas is a merchant in France in the 16th century, who is dealt an injustice by the court and then rejected redress by the legal system, which makes him go his own way and hire a smaller army.

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is written by Christelle Berthevas (Orpheline (2016)) and co-writer/director/co-editor Arnaud de Pallières (Drancy Avenir (1997)), adapting Heinrich von Kleist's (The Broken Jug/Der Zerbrochne Krug (1808)) novella Michael Kohlhaas (1808), based on the real Michael Kohlhase.

How much should one risk to get satisfaction, and are there limits to what can be forgiven? What is the Christian's relationship to justice in general? These are some of the large themes that this very European film raises. - Very European in that it is littered with long silences, has almost no music and only observes bloodshed from a far away distance. It attracts with a peculiar combination of beautiful nature-set photography and a strong cast led forcefully by good and very photogenic Mads Mikkelsen (Doctor Strange (2016)). His scenes with Denis Lavant (Journey to the West/Xi you (2014)) are the film's best: Here Kohlhaas (Mikkelsen) is questioned spiritually; are you only out for revenge?

Even still the mysterious reality in Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is very distant from ours, and the film is hard to fully warm up to. SPOILER There is also the matter of the ending, in which the now otherwise satisfied Kohlhaas has his head removed, which seems inscrutable, and makes one leave the film with a 'why?' feeling.

Watch a trailer for the film here with English subtitles

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 813k $

= Uncertain - but certainly a box office disaster

[Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas premiered 24 May (Cannes Film Festival, in competition) and runs 122 minutes. No less than 18 companies and support organs were involved with the financing and production of the film. Shooting took place in France. The film opened #90 to a 3k $ (0.3 % of the total gross) first and only week in 4 theaters in North America, where it was pulled directly from distribution. The 3 biggest markets were France with 371k $ (45.6 %), Germany with 303k $ (37.3 %) and Austria with 54k $ (6.6 %). If made on a scant 5 mil. $ budget, the film the film would have returned 0.16 times its cost. The film won 2/6 César award nominations, among other honors. Pallières returned with Orpheline (2016). Mikkelsen returned in The Salvation (2014). Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is rotten at 47 % with a 5.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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