‘No Rest for the Wicked’ Review: A Supernatural Gay Love Story in a 19th-Century Backwater

Danish director Kaspar Kalle makes his debut with 'No Rest for the Wicked,' which Variety reviews. The film adapts a supernatural love story from an 1884 tale by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, centering on a same-sex romance in a nineteenth-century backwater. Variety places it within a tradition of romantic ghost stories born from seafaring life — a cinematic lineage with deep roots.

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