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101 Reykjavik on DVD (2000)
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Blur front man Damon Albarn (who part-owns a bar in Reykjavik with the director) co-composed the score for this laconic comedy of sexual manners. Freely adapted from a chunky bestseller, director Baltasar Kormakur's first feature owes debts to the film-making styles of both Pedro Almodóvar and the Coen brothers, as wastrel Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) manages to impregnate both his on-off girlfriend, Hofi (Thrudur Vilhjalmsdottir), and Lola (Victoria Abril), the Spanish dance teacher who has just started a lesbian relationship with his newly liberated mother (Hanna Maria Karlsdottir). The combination of Abril's hot-blooded sassiness and Gudnason's cool deadpan is highly effective, but what lingers longest are cinematographer Peter Steuger's snow-speckled backstreets. Los Angeles Times "...[The film] finds a way to get more serious while still being true to its genial, amused sensibility....Beautifully photographed..." New York Times "...101 REYKJAVIK brims with surliness....Mr. Kormakur has come up with an Arctic Circle version of an Almodovar comedy..." Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most Helpful |
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