Freydís and Gudrid

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Freydís and Gudrid

2024

1h 55m

Drama

Musical

Romance

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A group of merchants and Vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic musical based on the Icelandic Vinland Sagas. As secrets are exposed, two women have a reckoning.

Jaylan Salah

InSession Film

02/25/2025

B+

In his Norse operatic film adaptation, Freydís and Gudrid, director Jeffrey Leiser defies the macho Viking lore, by giving the voice and the presence to his two female protagonists

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Josh Bell

Crooked Marquee

07/09/2024

C+

Leiser provides just enough cinematic splendor to make the clumsy execution more glaring.

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Daniel M. Kimmel

North Shore Movies

07/09/2024

2.5/5

A common complaint among moviegoers is that there’s nothing original out there: it’s all sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots. Well, “Freydis and Gudrid” is certainly different.

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Alan Ng

Film Threat

07/08/2024

6.5/10

It feels like a reading of ancient tales, with the emotion of the opera replacing the melodrama and acting found in traditional period pieces.

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Shikhar Verma

High on Films

07/06/2024

None of the film’s themes of loss, tragedy, and grief ever seem to come to the surface, and just when you think Lesiser would dive into what the aftermath of masculine decadence has on the women who suffer like bystanders, the film ends.

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Thom Ernst

Original Cin

07/02/2024

B

Embrace the operatic aspect of the film or resign to it, Leiser’s tale gets through. The story—that of a group of Viking merchants and explorers who set out to avenge the death of one of their own—is intact, along with the elements of romance and drama.

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A group of merchants and Vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic musical based on the Icelandic Vinland Sagas. As secrets are exposed, two women have a reckoning.

Director: Jeffrey Leiser
Producer: Jeffrey Leiser
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Leiser
Distributor: Prime Video
Production Co: Set Theory Productions
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 7, 2024
Runtime: 1h 55m