‘William Tell’ Review: Claes Bang Anchors an Old Fashioned Epic With a Modern Sensibility

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Steve Pond TIFF 2024: Nick Hamm’s film is big, brutal and beautiful – over the top at times and stirring at others "William Tell" (Credit: TIFF) You probably remember one thing about the Swiss folk hero William Tell: He used a bow and arrow to shoot an apple off the head of his son. But did you know that he did so on the orders of a cruel Austrian leader who wanted to quell any resistance to that country’s onerous occupation of Switzerland? Or that he became a leader of the Swiss resistance? If

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