Movie Review: ‘Wicker’

The romantic fantasy film Wicker, directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, adapts Ursula Wills’ 2008 short story The Wicker Husband. According to a review by Kurt Jensen for the Catholic Review, the film serves as a fable regarding loneliness and the fulfillment found in human companionship.

Set in an imaginary village where residents are identified by their occupations, the story follows a Fisherwoman, played by Olivia Colman, who seeks to avoid the humiliation of local wedding rituals. She commissions a Basket Weaver, played by Peter Dinklage, to construct a husband for her as a joke. The Basket Weaver succeeds in creating a living, empathetic man, played by Alexander Skarsgard, who proves to be moral and attentive to the Fisherwoman's needs.