Promised Land

He ripped shards of noise from his guitar in “Prove It All Night” and got his harmonica wheezing in “The Promised Land.”

“The Promised Land” is also the story of an unlikely family, a slowly developing theme that reveals itself over the course of the film’s runtime.

The Danish drama “The Promised Land” takes its old-fashioned remit with enjoyable seriousness.

For most, the land of Israel is central to the religion, the foundational narrative of which is about returning from slavery to the Promised Land.

In the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, Amalek is a nation whose soldiers ambushed the Israelites as they made their way to the Promised Land.