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| Peaceville UK | | DVD Release Date:
| May 15, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 a strange little filmOct 18, 2007
By D. A. Fortney
This is not what I expected. I enjoyed the film none-the-less. It offers a rare glimpse of life in Norway. It seems most people there live in modest cabin type homes that are comfortable but nothing extravagent. It shows Nocturno ice fishing, wandering around the frozen countryside, cross country skiing etc. A trip to Japan to Peter Beste's Black Metal photography exhibit... which interested me greatly. Some great music and some weird stuff all thrown together. Buy this if you are a fan!
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 "The Misanthrope" delivers...big time.Jun 09, 2007
By Derek Monahan
"yesmandroc"
Mighty hails from Bristol, Connecticut! Nocturno Culto's filmmaking debut is a real treat. For those of you whose mouths were but watered by those brief shots of Nocturno and Fenriz walking in the woods on those Peaceville interviews this movie is for you. Travel the world between Norway and Japan as Nocturno Culto provides a rare insight into black metal culture. Darkthrone fans will enjoy clips from rehearsals in Nocturno Culto's basement. Appearances by Aura Noir, Gallhammer, and some old guy who lives out in the middle of nowhere pepper this movie with fun and excitement. Includes new original music by Nocturno Culto, and the extras contain old Darkthrone videos.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Not what I expected, but sort of fun.Jul 17, 2008
By Amy
"circleofdestruction.net"
This DVD opens up with Nocturno Culto looking down a big hole in the ice and some other dude lying facedown on the ice. They are trying to get a couple of hours' footage of fish, and explaining why this is very exciting. After this we get some outdoor footage of Norway filmed with a handheld camera which gave me motion sickness. Some sort of large animal is getting butchered, this fades into a still shot of Fenriz playing drums.
I appreciate a well-used Shakycam shot leading up to a cabin in the Evil Dead movies; yet, the same kind of shakiness leading up to a cabin in the woods of Norway really did nothing for me here. Maybe it is the absense of chainsaws and evil spirits. Then there is a point-of-view skiing camera, and Fenriz explaining that cymbals are expensive and he hadn't bought one in 13 years. More Fenriz walking around in the snow. Some old rehearsal footage. More shots that prove Nocturno cannot hold a camera still to save his life, and he also has trouble framing shots (I refuse to believe that such shots as the ones of Fenriz coming out of a store are in any way "artfully composed." No, I think NC just has a problem with aiming the camera in such a way that it does not cut off people's heads.)
When I got my first video camera, I liked point of view shots too, so I'm not totally surprised that Nocturno Culto felt the same way about POV. Still, he is guilty of releasing a DVD full of poor quality home videos with no real point. Still, there is some fun stuff here. A weird "former circus artist" points to the sky and mumbles about acting. A dog apparently uses a car as a doghouse. Then we see the dude's paintings "based on visions, inspired by the 'Snorre' saga." Unfortunately, some of this lacks subtitles. Then they go to Tokyo and see Peter Beste's photography exhibit, which you can't really see due to the glare. More POV skiing, then some footage of Gallhammer. Back to Norway: NC smokes a cigarette and builds a fire. Then the old dude is back and read from a book and Nocturno attempts to do a wheelie on his bicycle. Then they go to a release party for Aura Noir. I'm sure that many belts are not necessary to hold their pants up.
I am so sleep-deprived lately that it didn't bother me at all that this had no real continuity or sense of purpose. The most impressive thing about this was the packaging. Seriously, I was impressed. I hate DVD cases and this is sort of like a CD case the size of a DVD case with nice photos of trees against a night sky. I'm not sure exactly what I was expected when I ordered this, but I'm sure it was something else entirely. I think I expected it to be a bit pretentious and silly, but actually it was just mildly boring in parts. I did enjoy the part where NC and Fenriz were b*tching about technology and the parts with the old dude, Knut. The back cover says the film "takes us into the heart of the Norwegian black metal scene and folk culture," which is pretty much not true, it's just a bunch of random home-video-like footage. The extras include a photo gallery and a few Darkthrone videos and the CD contains "new music by NC specifically composed for the film" and is not bad.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Die hard fans onlyMar 25, 2008
By D. Worrell
"Davie Jr. :-)"
This was good for my partner. However, you have to be a die hard fan to appreciate.
Interesting.Jun 01, 2009
By Robert P. Beveridge
"xterminal"
The Misanthrope (Nocturno Culto, 2007)
Once again I find myself reviewing a short (as I define them; The Misanthrope clocks in at fifty-five minutes, give or take) because it was so entirely different than what I expected given what I'd heard about it. The Misanthrope was directed by Darkthrone's Nocturno Culto, so needless to say I was expecting blasts of detuned guitar and screechy lyrics laid over really dark shots of barren forests and snow and stuff. Nothing could be further from the truth. The first part of this is basically home movies about a bunch of guys tromping around in the wilderness doing things like ice fishing. Now, I don't want to make it sound like some sort of outtake from a film version of Iron John, Satan forbid, but this is good friends hanging out and (I apologize for using the word, but...) bonding. It's kind of a "hey, we may slather ourselves in corpse paint and sing about war, death, and Satan, but we're people too!" thing. Looked at on one level, really, it's funny as hell; these guys are so entirely different from the way you expect that there's bound to be cognitive disconnect. But then, I'm a noise kid, and I move in circles with a lot of people who are even more marginalized than black metal bands. And almost to a person, the nicest guys I know are the ones who come out with the most depraved, brutal noise. I saw it from a slightly different perspective, and I didn't find it quite as surprising; looked at on a different level, that same message can be construed in a much more thoughtful manner. I'm not sure if the intent here was to convey a "hey, we're human too" message. After all, the movie is called The Misanthrope. Maybe these guys are so content with life because they're so far away from society.
Then come the snow scenes. Yeah, I knew it. Afterwards, some footage from a Japanese Darkthrone tour, which didn't quite give the contrast I was thinking it would. They're still nice guys, even in the midst of Japan's largest city.
I think every review of The Misanthrope has said "this is not for everyone" by now. Most say it's probably only of value to hardcore Darkthrone fans, but I'm not one (I don't actually think I've heard any of their music, other than in black metal documentaries) and I found it very interesting. I do agree that this is not something the average film viewer will probably get a lot out of, but it's worth checking out if you're on some sort of societal fringe, or sympathize with those who are. Will you enjoy it? Honestly, I can't tell you. The only way to find out is to see it for yourself, but I do suggest you do that. ***
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