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Reviews (23)
Aug 22, 2021
Great Film, Highly Recommended
"The Last King" (with English subtitles, originally titled "Birkebeinerne" in Norwegian) is a wonderful film based on historical events, with fictional elements woven into it. Great actors, costumes, sets, location, filming, direction, etc. It's set in the early 13th century during which there are rival political factions, each wanting a different person on Norway's throne. One group, the Baglers, has the backing of Denmark and the Church. Two men from other group, the Birkebeinerne, protects the infant son of the deceased king (many treks filmed with these men on skis, carrying the baby!) and eventually he becomes King of Norway. You can Google the film to learn more about the actual events that inspired it.
The film does contain some historical inaccuracies, as man history-based films do. Several times the dialogue gives the impression that the Birkebeinerne rebels are fighting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church, which they don't want in Norway. In the 13th century, Norway WAS Catholic. The Reformation was still 300 years away. What was actually unwanted was the church interfering in politics, yet the film at times conveys an anti-Catholic sentiment. In one scene we see Haakon, the baby and future king eating a potato, a vegetable that wasn't grown in Norway until the 18th century. We are also given the impression that many of those opposed to the church's power are Pagans. Norway was Christian in this period and had been for some time. Cultural memories of the old religion still existed, (as expressed in carvings in stave churches for example) but people weren't invoking Odin and hoping to go to Valhalla.
Still, the visual beauty of the film, fine acting, and more, make it a film worth seeing and owning. By the 13th century the Viking Age had ended almost 300 years earlier, but "The Last King" is in some ways like watching "Vikings" on skis. (Skis by the way have been around for thousands of years!)
Sep 07, 2014
This is an inspiring, positive, and motivating film!
I bought this DVD because I like the hymns of John Wesley - I'm not a Methodist - and found it to be enjoyable. Random impressions, in no special order:
1. Jenkins is a very good actor, and the cast overall was good.
2. June Locket (who I've always liked) is a bit much though. She doesn't sound like the 18th century English mother that she portrays, she sounds like she's from California, and her long, fake eyelashes and mascara (?) give her a Tammy Faye Baker look, a bit odd.
3. Costumes are okay, (especially Jenkin's) but some are off by a few decades. The film is set mid 18th century, give or take a few years. Many costumes used looked late century, even those used for the in the 1730's period, and those damn white wigs! White powdered wigs were formal, most men wore wigs in normal hair colors, but every man in this film wearing a wig is wearing the same white wig with side curls and a pony tail, even Rev. Charles Wesley, John's brother. Clergymen had prescribed wig styles, and what he's wearing ain't it.
4. Scenes and locations are beautiful, nicely filmed.
5. Saw several period-incorrect things. In one scene, Wesley gives a sermon in a church yard filled with headstones that are decidely Victorian and later. Some men have very short hair, and some have facial hair, not appropriate for this time period. In one scene, we see a Church of England bishop preaching in front of a church altar, and on the altar is a tabernacle! These were found only on Roman Catholic altars until the mid 19th century Oxford movement reintroduced Catholic elements into the C. of E.
Jun 18, 2020
Best tongs ever!
These tongs are great. You can pick them up with your fingers. They don't plug in so they work during power outages. Keep them away from open windows though. They are shiny and attract crows.