Wicker (2026)
Directed by Alex Huston Fischer
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
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As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
In many ways, Wicker feels like medieval Edward Scissorhands, with every frame bursting to life with artistic brilliance.
He is reminiscent of Johnny Depp’s Edward Scissorhands, a bit shy and awkward, speaking slowly and honestly.
Like Joaquin Phoenix’s introverted Theodore Twombly in Her finding “Samantha,” or Ryan Gosling’s titular character in Lars and the Real Girl toting around a life-sized doll, Fisherwoman is a better person with Husband in her life.
As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
As we’ve learned from stories like Edward Scissorhands, Pinocchio, and Lars and the Real Girl, few things teach us more about what it means to be fully human and alive than creatures crafted by an artist's hands…
This gives more power to an ending that brings everything “full circle” with a denouncement worthy of the “Twilight Zone” and even the old EC horror comics (and their cousin, Mad magazine).
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Wilson and Huston make great use of the Budapest locations that riff on the squalor of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (minus the plague).
…the wedded writing-directing team unafraid to flaunt irreverence to a degree that would make Austin Powers blush…
…see an analog comparison to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nominated 2013 masterpiece Her. The two films couldn’t be farther apart in terms of polish and setting, yet the narrative goals for finding substantial love from artificial, yet affirming places are wholly unified.
On Brooks, rather than any one film
…though it looks fictitiously medieval in a Monty Python or Mel Brooks way…
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On Toro, rather than any one film
The concept of a fairytale for adults is nothing new; Guillermo del Toro has that sub-genre on lock.
Wickeris far from Fifty Shades of Grey (thankfully), but it will still have you submitting to its message about how deep and delicate human love is.