Movies for Your Mind
101 Reykjavík
Iceland 2000 comedy romance in Icelandic with English subtitles, 88 minutes. MPAA Rating: Not rated (sexual content and nudity, violence and smoking). Cast: Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir; Directed by Baltasar Kormakur.
The country has no trees. It’s dark most of the time, and the winters are the bleakest on Earth. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237993/
Review excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthman:
Dreamy, immature and stone-cold unemployed, Hlynur is an Icelandic slacker with a beauty of a sexual dilemma. At 28, he lives with his mom, doesn’t work and spends his evenings getting hammered in the local pub. After bedding a fiery flamenco instructor, he discovers that she’s his mother’s lesbian lover – – and may be pregnant with his child. So it goes in “101 Reykjavik,” a wonderful, cockeyed sex comedy from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur. Set in the capital city of Reykjavik, where round-the-clock summer daylight induces all forms of excess and dysfunction, this is a throwback to British comedies of the ’60s (“Billy Liar, ” “Morgan”) about over-imaginative loners at odds with reality.
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