Synopsis
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
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Cast
- Tómas LemarquisNói Kristmundsson
- Þröstur Leó GunnarssonB. Kristmundsson
- Elín HansdóttirÍris Óskarsdóttir
- Hjalti RögnvaldssonÓskar Halldórsson
- Pétur EinarssonPriester
- Anna FriðriksdóttirLina
Recommendations
- 80
Chicago Reader
Kari combines Kaurismaki's deadpan minimalism and Truffaut's sensitivity toward adolescent yearning with a hefty dose of gallows humor, and tops it all off with an apocalyptic ending. - 80
Film Threat
Performances are spot-on from the entire cast; each memorable character is finely detailed and full of eccentricities that are beautifully underplayed. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Quirky, heartfelt acting makes this a superior entry in the perennial teenage-misfit genre. - 75
New York Post
Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker. - 70
Variety
An inspired mix of realism, humor and metaphor. - 70
Village Voice
A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
