Until the Light Takes Us
Aaron Aites & Audrey Ewell
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Plot Summary
Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians. artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that's as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what's actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
48%- Reviews Counted: 23
- Fresh: 11
- Rotten: 12
- Average Rating: 5.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: 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.
Rotten: That's all fascinating as far as it goes, but to some degree Vikernes is playing his liberal American guests.
Rotten: Until the Light arrives a decade too late to add much.
Fresh: 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.
Customer Reviews
Great Movie
A must for any fan of black metal. The part with Dead was even crazy than I thought must buy.
Great
Great Black Metal Documentary
Insightful
This film provides an excellent in-depth look into the cultural phenomenon of black metal, as opposed to simply the music; highlighting the anti-Christian and nationalistic ideas and actions of a group called "The Black Circle."
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