1918 · drama · romance
The Outlaw and His Wife
Directed by Victor Sjöström1h 51m1918
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Our read: The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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