Bed Books And Beyond

First things first: this is not a comedy. It’s funny in parts, but it’s not ‘dark comedy’ or ‘absurdist comedy’ or any of those other variants often touted out when they really mean ‘indie movie with artistic pretentions’.   What it is though is an at-all-times interesting tale about a grieving husband (played admirably by Viggo Mortenson) and his ragtale bunch of home-schooled warrior children (all equally brilliant in their respective roles) on a mission to rescue the body of their dead mother from her Christian parents to cremate her in accordance with their wishes. Captain Fantastic (2016) While the premise is quirky enough to set your indie feelers tingling, the backstory is what gives it character: the kids have all been born and raised isolated from conventional society- in a remote farm when they were young and since then in their own little private settlement in a forest. Every day, they wake up and train themselves to scale mountains and hunt wild game