{"id":2249218,"date":"2026-01-25T03:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249218"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:26:16","slug":"wicker-review-alexander-skarsgard-is-the-husband-of-olivia-colmans-dreams-in-a-quirky-winsome-and-enjoyably-tart-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicker-review-alexander-skarsgard-is-the-husband-of-olivia-colmans-dreams-in-a-quirky-winsome-and-enjoyably-tart-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicker\u2019 Review: Alexander Skarsgard Is the Husband of Olivia Colman\u2019s Dreams in a Quirky, Winsome and Enjoyably Tart Fable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">A strange person comes to (an also strange) town and teaches the set-in-their-ways locals how to live and love in the new fairytale film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0241303\/\">Chocolat<\/a>. Well, no, it\u2019s called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29611136\/\">Wicker<\/a>, but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2856727\/\">Eleanor Wilson<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7742589\/\">Alex Huston Fischer<\/a>\u2019s film does bear a faint resemblance to that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002120\/\">Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m<\/a> confection of a past movie era, as it does to plenty of other films about a fish-out-of-water charmingly affecting their adopted community. Which isn\u2019t to ding <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29611136\/\">Wicker<\/a>; while there is plenty of originality to be found in this spritely fable, it\u2019s also nice to see something old-fashioned at a festival so commonly associated with envelope-pushing modernity.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29611136\/\">Wicker<\/a> might have been something of a scandal back in the days of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0241303\/\">Chocolat<\/a>, what with its frequent, bawdy talk of sex, of body parts and fluids and fetishes. The film, based on the short story \u201cThe Wicker Husband\u201d by Ursula Wills-Jones,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange person comes to (an also strange) town and teaches the set-in-their-ways locals how to live and love in the new fairytale film Chocolat. Well, no, it\u2019s called Wicker, but Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer\u2019s film does bear a faint resemblance to that Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m confection of a past movie era, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Wicker-Review-Alexander-Skarsgard-Is-the-Husband-of-Olivia-Colmans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249220,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249218\/revisions\/2249220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}