![]() Adolescent male cruelty and stupidity are at the black heart of this story of musical image-making gone awry the result is death, church-burning, and gleeful cat-torturing. When Euronymous (Rory Culkin) becomes competitive with the posing, nervous Varg (Emory Cohen), danger is imminent.Īs this gang of asshole teenagers thrash and headbang their way into a litany of gruesome behavior, Åkerlund regards them with both mild detachment and fully fleshed-out detail. There are reams of ink-black hair and mottled white face paint, double denim, knives plunging into wrists, and stage lights strobing as lead singer Dead (Jack Kilmer) tosses severed pigs’ heads to his audience. ![]() Unsurprisingly, this gives the film fertile aesthetic grounding. The marriage of director to material is ideal, given Åkerlund’s own membership in a Swedish death metal band as a youth and his decades of experience in the music world. The Big Screen: Birds of Passage By Manu Yáñez Murillo
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