In Black Death, screened this year at Toronto After Dark, Sean Bean plays a grizzled dark ages knight who leads a small band of Agincourt veterans, torturers and murderers, plus one world shy monk, on a mission to a investigate claims of a small village that is free from the plague, because a necromancer has been using Satanic power to keep the sickness at bay.
Now, show of hands; how many of you gave out a little “squeeee!” at the words “Sean Bean” and “grizzled dark ages knight”?
Good. Go see this movie. It’s everything you hope it will be. Everyone who isn’t in the “Sean Bean is the one man I would go gay for club” may read on.

Unsurprisingly, Sean Bean is not actually the star of the show here, though he lends the one big name to an otherwise small production. This isn’t unusual for Bean; he’s a grade A talent who’s made a career out of playing backup, and he’s damn good at it. He has the humility and the skill to walk on stage and immediately point the spotlight at everybody else.
OK, so I’m slightly in the club. Maybe first base.

The real star is Osmund, the world shy monk played with passion and aplomb by Eddie Redmayne. Osmund’s journey is the emotional heart of this piece, as he travels away from the security and simplicity of the monastery, and into a dangerous and brutal world fraught with complexity and suffering.

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