Having her wicker way: Olivia Colman in well-woven tale of maiden’s braided bridegroom
New Zealand Herald · Sarah Watt ·
Alexander Skarsgård made to look unrecognisably willowy by Wētā Workshop.
Wicker, directed by Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson, is in cinemas now.
There’s something incredibly refreshing about watching Wicker, a fantasy romcom about an unlovable woman who finds love in the most unlikely of offerings.
It helps of course that it stars the incomparable Olivia Colman as the otherwise unnamed Fisherwoman, a dowdy, malodorous spinster who has no real interest in finding a husband in the marriage-obsessed village in which she sells her piscine wares. But due to societal pressure she relents and commissions Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker to fashion her a husband made of willow branches.
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