A kooky sex-crazed folk tale in search of a larger purpose beyond its whimsical premise, Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s “Wicker” stars Olivia Colman as a prickly fisherwoman who emerges from the fringes of a seaside village to task a basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) with weaving her a husband. That husband is played by a delightfully deadpan Alexander Skarsgård as a man made entirely of wicker fibers, a face that looks like a woven espadrille stretched over a human skull.
This raunchy period romp arrives in spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer’s for-its-time X-rated “Canterbury Tales” and with an A24-ready, Academy-ratioed crisp visual style serviced by cinematographer…