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Festival Season Arrives: Whiling Away Winter in the City Cinemas
Back in the dark ages before the advent of Bíó Paradís, one of the few opportunities Reykvikians had to see non-Hollywood films on the big screen was during the French film festival. While things are not quite so bad for the cinephile…
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A Song of Innocence: The Swan Is Born
“The worst part about this is that it’s not even original,” says the young girl, now pregnant, and with seemingly no way out of the tiny place she was born. One could be forgiven for entertaining similar thoughts when watching ‘The Swan,’…
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The Quality of Dreams: Icelandic Director Ása Hjörleifsdóttir On The Icelandic Filmmaking Scene
It’s early Monday morning when I meet Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, the latest director to shake up the Icelandic movie scene. Only a couple of days have passed since the premiere of her first feature-length film at the Toronto Film Festival—the intensely tragic…
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Get Your Read On: The Swan & Children In The Reindeer Woods
The latest in our series of English-translated Icelandic books, old and new, looks at ‘The Swan’ and ‘Children in Reindeer Woods’. Guðbergur Bergsson – The Swan In his 1991 classic ‘The Swan’, Guðbergur Bergsson immerses himself in the perspective of a child—a…