Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America

Tony Stone's "Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America" is not a documentary but an ambitious imagining of events drawn from the Vinland Sagas, the mythic story of the Norse exploration of America. Stone's admirable and persuasive evocation is unfortunately marred by his self-defeating resort to flurries of claustrophobic, fragmented hand-held shots that obfuscate just about every crucial plot [...] Vai alla recensione »

The clang of swords mixes with the sounds of the whispering wind, rustling leaves, singing birds and the occasional unsettling din of Norwegian black-metal music in “Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America,” which tracks two Vikings lost in the New World in 1007. Independent to the nth degree, the movie is the mad creation of a young American, Tony Stone, who not only wrote, directed and edited [...] Vai alla recensione »