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Until the Light Takes Us
Directed by
Aaron Aites
,
Audrey Ewell
Not Rated
2008
1h 33m
Documentary
,
Music
7.0
46%
57%
6.7
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Interviews and news footage explore the rise of black metal music in Norway in the 1990s, including artists who were involved in suicide, murder and arson.
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Cast of Until the Light Takes Us
Varg Vikernes
Burzum
Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg
Hellhammer
Øystein Aarseth
Euronymous
Per Ohlin
Dead
Olve Eikemo
Abbath
Harald Nævdal
Demonaz
Gylve Nagell
Fenriz
Bjarne Melgaard
Himself
Bård Eithun
Faust
Kristoffer Rygg
Garm
Kjetil 'Frost' Haraldstad
Frost
Harmony Korine
Himself
Aaron Aites
Director / Producer / Additional Editing
Audrey Ewell
Director / Writer / Producer
Tyler Brodie
Executive Producer
Frederick Howard
Associate Producer
Gill Holland
Executive Producer
James Lopezzo
Assistant Editor
Michael Dimmitt
Additional Editing
David Gauff
Assistant Editor
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Until the Light Takes Us Ratings & Reviews
Decider
Conrad Doucette
Fails to capture the excitement of the original Norwegian black metal scene or explain why its art is more important than the sensational events for which it is remembered.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
A morbidly hypnotic yet generally disorganized affair. To be fair, you could argue that it stays purposefully true to the pervasive murk of its subject.
Filmcritic.com
Josh Bell
When Aites and Ewell manage to illuminate the complex relationship between art and action, Until the Light Takes Us can be fascinating and powerful.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
This may be the first headbangers' movie that will put hard-rock fans to sleep.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
It's an unsettlingly intimate look from inside the movement at its rise and fall; the filmmakers manage to make us understand why the music matters while not giving its violent creators a pass.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jeff Vice
This is one of the most inept and clumsy pieces of filmmaking in recent history.
Boston Globe
Joan Anderman
Their dedication to giving the players their moment on the podium prevented Aites and Ewell from asking provocative questions, or, it would seem, any questions at all.
Boston Phoenix
Shaula Clark
Glacially paced yet gripping.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
Long on atmosphere and short on context, the film dances around whatever points it wants to make, sticking solely to the players' points of view.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
In interviews with a few of the key players, the film desensationalizes the story without really demystifying it. It's an intriguing but shallow examination that never really finds a point of view about its subject.
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
This is worth seeing for its snapshot of countercultural delusion and the comedy of Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes, pompous crypto-Nazi and incarcerated murderer, whining that the media have distorted his subtle social critique.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
That's all fascinating as far as it goes, but to some degree Vikernes is playing his liberal American guests.
Film Journal International
Frank Lovece
Rough-hewn documentary of the heavy-metal subgenre black metal and the disaffected Norwegian youth culture that spawned it finds yin-and-yang exemplars to tell the story.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A dull, unfocused and poorly directed documentary that lacks insight and fails to coherently and engagingly illuminate the subject of black metal.
New York Times
Mike Hale
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's absorbing, low-key documentary "Until the Light Takes Us" recounts how a few Norwegian musicians hijacked an obscure offshoot of heavy metal and made it world famous.
MTV
Kurt Loder
The world is overstocked with flamboyantly wasted rock The The world is overstocked with flamboyantly wasted rock stars and heavily strapped rappers, but few of them can hold a guttering candle to the ghoul-boy nutters of Norwegian Black Metal.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Until the Light arrives a decade too late to add much.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
Until the Light Takes Us tracks the deafening sounds and shocking anti-social behavior of the metal music clan who stand against their country's behavioral norms and cultural traditions.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
It not only crucially fails to address the cultural forces that might have spawned the country's prime musical export but it also neglects to include more than cursory snippets of the tunes themselves.
Austin Chronicle
Raoul Hernandez
Viking central's biggest cultural touchstone since the moose, black metal music comes off almost as monstrous.
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