Until the Light Takes Us | |
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Directed by | Aaron Aites Audrey Ewell |
Produced by | Aaron Aites Tyler Brodie Audrey Ewell Gill Holland Frederick Howard |
Starring | Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad Harmony Korine Bjarne Melgaard Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg Bård "Faust" Eithun |
Cinematography | Audrey Ewell Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen |
Edited by | Andrew Ford |
Production companies | Artists Public Domain Field Pictures The Group Entertainment |
Distributed by | Variance Films |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Until the Light Takes Us is a 2008 American documentary film about early Norwegian black metal, directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell. The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival in 2008, a year before it was released in theaters.
Variance Films acquired the theatrical rights to the film in the U.S. and released it in New York City on December 4, 2009.[1] The film grossed $7,246 on a single screen in its first week, the second highest per-screen gross of any debuting film at the time (behind Up in the Air).[citation needed]
Until the Light Takes Us received a 54 out of 100 score on Metacritic[2] and a 46% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com called the film "crafty and compelling".[3] Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice wrote, "The filmmakers seem cowed into obeisance by their subjects. Varg's last onscreen appearance is accompanied by a montage fitting a schoolyard crush, and the film's title is the translation of Burzum's fourth album, Hvis lyset tar oss. [...] [the film] arrives a decade too late to add much."[4]