101 Reykjavik

Seen during Challenge Tour 2015: 30 days with world cinema. Movie number 3 - Island. The first disappointment during the Tour came quite early. A movie with an unsympathetic main character who is lost in his life, especially in his love life. I was quite bored, I only remember two funny lines. At least watching Victoria Abril was pleasant. Kormákur appeals to me more with his crime and action movies, but I take it that everyone has to start somewhere and as a debut, it's not a complete failure. (04/04/2015)

“A family dinner or a funeral… better the funeral, there would at least be one idiot less.” A remarkable Icelandic comedy that fascinated me mainly by how often it managed to surprise me, although after a few minutes I thought that it could no longer do it, that I was ready for everything ... A very likeable and incorrect flick. (02/11/2012)

I found Hlynur, the main "hero," so extremely unlikable that I started wishing his face would get hit by a shovel real hard about seven minutes into the film. The story had a touch of drama, and every now and then I detected a hint of black humor, but there just wasn’t enough of it to have any effect on my rating. In fact, the film slightly bored me most of the time and allowed my thoughts to wander. And I don’t want that to happen, as they might not all come back to me. When a film can’t get my full attention or loses it in the process, it's not a good sign. It means that I'm either not the target audience or that it's just not any good. Either way, I didn't have much fun today. / Lesson learned: Alcoholics Anonymous sure have it tough in Iceland. (09/24/2022)