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Different Hearts
The Good Heart is Dagur Kári’s third feature film after Dark Horse (Voksne Mennesker, 2005) and Noi The Albino (Nói Albínói, 2003). In his films, the story usually revolves around a few main characters, their way of connecting to other people and…
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Outmooring Michael: Maybe I Should have
After the disaster that was Guð blessi Ísland, one could be forgiven for approaching the latest disaster movie with some reprehension. The former’s flaw lay in trying to deal with the whole debacle from three different perspectives: the micro-history one of focusing…
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Oh No! It’s the Radiophonic Paramilitaries
Regardless of whether cinema used to be truth 24 times per second or lies at the same rate, it is now becoming something else entirely. It is tempting to make some grand declaration—it is always tempting to make grand declarations. But perhaps…
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Dead Girls in the Snow
Every film festival has one semi-pornographic film to generate debate. Last year it was Short Bus, this year it’s Lars von Trier’s Antichrist that gets the job done. Trier seems, like his compatriot Lukas Moodyson, to believe that the filmmaker’s task is…
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God is Corruption Funny
Brace yourself: the cast of Spaugstofan (the Joke Office) is up there with the Goons, the Monty Python Crew, and the original Saturday Night Live cast. The five-member cast has been putting on a weekly broadcast since 1989. They have taken full…