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Everest. 2015 2h 1m PG-13. 7.1 (234K) Rate. 64 Metascore. On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.
The following is a list of notable films produced in Iceland by Icelanders. Star marked films are films in coproduction with Iceland. Although Arne Mattsson is Swedish, his film is included because it is based on a book by the Icelandic Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness.
- Land and Sons
- On Top
- When The Raven Flies
- The Juniper Tree
- Children of Nature
- Remote Control
- Cold Fever
- Devil’s Island
- 101 Reykjavik
- Angels of The Universe
Movie critics often cite Agust Gudmundsson’s Land and Sons(Land og synir) as the origination point of contemporary Icelandic cinema. It was based on Indridi G. Thorsteinsson’s novel (father of renowned crime-fiction writer Arnaldur Indridason). It’s a story about a generation of weary farmers dwelling in a remote valley north of Iceland. The film d...
Agust Gudmundsson, who scored domestic box-office hits and international acclaim with the films Land and Sons (1980) &Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli (1981), ventured into a comedy genre with On Top. This widely popular Icelandic musical comedy revolves around two rival bands – one all-male and one all-female – who compete with each other from town to to...
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson wanted to make an authentic Viking-era movie in order to counter the insipid Hollywood stereotypes. Swedish producers Bo Jonsson and Gunnlaugsson wrote the story, which was predominantly inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, John Ford’s The Searchers, and the sagas of early Icelanders. Known as the Icelandic film industry’s first...
Nietzchka Keene’s self-funded feature is an adaptation as well as a feminist re-imagining of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale. It marks the acting debut of Icelandic pop star Bjork. Set in the medieval era and shot in spellbindingly stark black-and-white, Juniper Treeis a coming-of-age tale of a young woman named Margit (Bjork), whose mother is murde...
The 1980s Iceland movies were largely inspired by home-grown mythical tales & sagas. Moreover, these films were made for Icelanders. However, in the 1990s new generation of filmmakers deeply contemplated their nation’s social themes yet injected universal emotions to resonate with film lovers around the world. In that way, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’...
While guns set up narrative conflicts in Hollywood films, a missing remote control drives this tale of Reykjavik’s underworld. Oskar Jonsson’s debut feature, Remote Control (Sódóma Reykjavík), revolves around young mechanic Axel (Bjorn Jorundur Fridbjornsson), his mother, and his hard-partying sister Maeja. Axel goes on to retrieve the TV remote fo...
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s fourth feature film has an enchanting transnational narrative. American indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch was invited (in the early 90s) for the screening of his brilliant anecdotal comedy Mystery Train(1989) at the Reykjavik Film Festival. Producer Jim Stark made the visit on Jarmusch’s behalf. When Fridriksson and Mr. Stark ...
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson follows up Children of Nature & Cold Feverwith yet another good, wry comedy based on Einar Gudmundsson’s novel. The film is set in the 1950s in the squalid premises of Reykjavik. Renowned Iceland director Baltasar Koramkur plays rebellious Baddi, whose mother has left him and his introverted brother Danni for an American so...
Baltasar Kormakur’s crowd-pleasing black comedy doesn’t have any particularly likable characters. Protagonist Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) is a man-child who sleeps, drinks, rummages through porn collection, and engages in meaningless relationships with several women. Slacker would be too simple a word to describe his existence. His bleak, hopele...
Based on author Einar Gudmundsson’s novel, Fridriksson’s visually impressive life-affirming feature tells the story of a thirty-something Icelandic artist with mental health problems. Paul (Ingvart E. Sigurdsson) is an unsuccessful painter who lives with his parents after experiencing unbearable rejection from his girlfriend, Dagny. Since Paul’s in...
- Children of Nature (1991) Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. Thorgeir has grown too old to look after himself and his farm. He is less than welcome at his daughter and son-in-law’s urban apartment, and ends up dumped in a stultifying home for the elderly in Reykjavik.
- Cold Fever (1995) Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. After the success of Children of Nature, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson found support and sympathetic partners outside of Iceland.
- 101 Reykjavik (2000) Director: Baltasar Kormákur. Hlynur is a 28-year-old slacker. He still lives at his mother’s house (in Reykjavik postcode 101) and can’t seem to commit to either work or relationships.
- Stormy Weather (2003) Director: Sólveig Anspach. Although Icelandic-French writer-director Sólveig Anspach spent much of her creative life living and working in France, she often included Icelandic characters in her scripts and made several significant films in her native Iceland.
- Inma Gregorio
- Angels of the Universe. It is a very good Icelandic movie that was released in 2000, produced and directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. Angels of the Universe is a story about a young man and his fight with a dangerous mental disease and the people in his ordinary life.
- Children of Nature. This movie was released in 1991, directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It is the only Icelandic movie that has ever been nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar at the 64th Academy Awards.
- The Sea. The movie was released in 2002, directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is a story of a rich Icelandic family that is famous in a small town. They have a fish company to run and family problems to deal with.
- Stormy Weather. The movie was released in 2003, directed by Sólveig Anspach. It is a story of a relationship between French psychologist called Cora and her unclear and confused patient Loa who has returned back to Iceland from France.
With that thought, it might make perfect sense since many people believe that Iceland doesn’t look like a country from this world. George Lucas filmed his space saga in the nigh Martian-like setting of Iceland. There were quite a few scenes filmed in The Force Awakens and Rogue One movies.
13.5.2024 : Icelandic films selected for six consecutive Cannes Film Festivals. 10.5.2024 : Films from Iceland at Cannes 2024. 7.5.2024 : Thirteen documentaries to premiere at Skjaldborg festival. 30.4.2024 : Atli Örvarsson Receives BAFTA Award.
