Reviews of the Bosch

The story of Wicker feels like it ought to predate that of the movie it is at risk of being confused with, The Wicker Man . It is credited to a fable called “The Wicker Husband”, which might be an old folktale from the pre-Norman past of England for its parable-like moral narrative and lack of official names for any of its characters who might as well be mere metaphorical symbols. But in actual fact it was a short story written just a few years ago by Ursula Wills, who does a remarkable job in adopting that particular style and character in a convincing but thoroughly contemporary manner. I can’t imagine a woman’s agency being all that popular a topic in even the pagan days of yore. It is filtered into movie form by directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, and while I can’t say whether its particular sense of humour and ironic tone is native to its source, it detracts surprisingly little from the ethos being communicated -that ethos being a rather stark reworking of Beauty an...