Olivia Colman Creates Alexander Skarsgård in First Trailer for Wicker

A love story unlike any this year, Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson’s _Wicker _tells a fable in which a woman (Olivia Colman) commissions a wicker husband (Alexander Skarsgård) to be made by the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage). Also starring Elizabeth Debicki and shot by Lol Crawley (The Brutalist), the film will now get a release on October 23 from Black Bear Pictures and, with this, the first trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention, WICKER tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions a husband to be made by the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage). When her wicker husband (Alexander Skarsgård) proves more spectacular than she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awaken something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination, and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of village life.”

Kent M. Wilhelm said in his Sundance review, “This sophomore feature is a lighthearted period piece set in a time and place that never existed. Their screenplay, based on Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story The Wicker Husband, is a skewering of patriarchal relationship dynamics and traditions. The world they construct is a fun house mirror’s reflection of reality, allowing for a heightened world that feels believable despite its anachronous qualities. The characters have no proper names. Instead, as a jab to the old-fashioned practice of wives adopting their husband’s last name, the men are referred to by their occupation and the women by their relationship to those men. We experience the cruelty inherent to this society from the perspective of an outsider, someone who doesn’t adhere to its conventions and becomes the subject of ridicule for it. Adding some sweetness to their poison is the crass, bawdy manner with which the village hobnobs, wisely adding levity to their nastiness. Along with the sharp cultural satire, Wicker has one show-stopping card up its sleeve: a wicker Alexander Skarsgård.