Las tradiciones paganas británicas y celtas en torno al mimbre se basan en el misticismo de la madera de sauce y proceden, entre otras fuentes de las antiguas Grecia y Roma, del geógrafo Estrabón, a principios del siglo I, que describió un coloso de paja y madera frente al que se colocaban seres humanos y animales antes de ser quemados, y de La guerra de las Galias, de Julio César, en el siglo I a. C., que contó cómo los antiguos druidas construían gigantescas efigies con ramas de mimbre y las rellenaban con hombres vivos como sacrificio para sus dioses.

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Wicker

Dirección: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson.

Intérpretes: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgard, Elizabeth Debicki, Peter Dinklage.

Género: fantasía. Reino Unido, 2026.

Duración: 105 minutos.

Estreno: 30 de octubre.

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Based on the Jane Austen classic, the streamer's take on the well-adapted story is written and executive produced by Dolly Alderton.

"Just one week before the shoot started, the directors came up with this idea: 'He's so sexy. We should see him naked,'" costume designer Tóth András Dániel recalls.

"Our heads are much dirtier than what's on camera," says Olivia Colman, who stars alongside Alexander Skarsgård in a romance between a fisherwoman and her wicker husband.

Olivia Colman goes vulpine, Rupert Grint’s newborn is a monster and Joko Anwar makes a warmhearted violent ghost story set in an Indonesian prison

If I’d ever wanted children, the films showing at the 59th edition of the International Fantastic film festival of Catalonia in the coastal town of Sitges, south of Barcelona, would have soon set me straight. This year’s recurring themes were explosive parturition, chewed-up nipples and the fruit of the womb turning out to be at best sociopathic, at worst inhuman.

The theme was celebrated in an evil-kiddy exhibition at the Miramar Cultural Centre, marking the 50th anniversary of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s “fantaterror” classic Who Can Kill a Child?, some of which was filmed in Sitges itself. The expo traced the subgenre from 1956’s The Bad Seed, via Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, to this year’s Nightborn, in which poor Rupert Grint, as the hapless husband, is no match for the developing folk-horror bond between his depressed wife, their newborn “child”, and the spooky forest surrounding their house. Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, in her introduction, confessed it was inspired by her experiences of motherhood. Only up to a point, one hopes.

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© Photograph: Andrea Miconi

© Photograph: Andrea Miconi

© Photograph: Andrea Miconi