Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Quarashi’s Music Video Odyssey

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“It’s a strange combination of both people and music, you know?” Quarashi is an Icelandic rap group founded in the…

Horse Manoeuvre

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A soulful, deadpan look at humans’ equestrian escapadesBenedikt Erlingsson’s theatrical debut is a mosaic of several stories that centre on…

Real ‘Life In A fishbowl’

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A triptych of Icelandic lives 
in disarray‘Life In A Fishbowl’ tells three distinct stories of people living in pre-crisis Iceland….

A Metallic Maiden

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Þorbjörg Helga Dýrfjörð wins Best Actress at the Eddas‘Málmhaus’ (“Metalhead”), written and directed by Ragnar Bragason, is both a coming…

The Big, Bad South African Wolf

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The first film banned in South Africa since the Apartheid, ‘Of Good Report’ is enjoying a limited theatrical release at…

Tackling Gravity

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Animation Director Daði Einarsson talks about the film’s technical challengesWhen it comes to animation, Iceland’s Daði Einarsson is a real…

The Lovable Drunk

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Although his acting in Iceland—with the Vesturport theatre group and in popular films and TV series such as ‘101 Reykjavík,’…

Nowhere Men

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`Prince Avalanche’ is the story of two highway road workers–Alvin (starring Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch)–who spend the summer…