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Heiðin (2008)
Simple beauty
What I liked about watching this film was being gently surprised, because all the big action and hype over movies gets a bit too much sometimes, but this film just gently entertained me and my friend. Really an easy going movie with a laid back humour, beautiful to watch and the makers deserve credit for using the landscape as it fits the story, not too much but there is sometimes a lot of small talk about overusing the Icelandic landscape. That was maybe done in the early Icelandic movies. The characters somewhat keep you curious about them all to the end with witty but simple dialogue and all the acting is good. All of them totally believable. Its one of those movie one just has to see, it may not play along with the commercial culture but still is a film for everybody who like a true, human story about ordinary stuff. The issue of a broken family comes across thou it is not often in the foreground, the feel of the country side life is very convincing and all together some sort of magic brings you to the touching but unsentimental end. And the music is great.
Stóra planið (2008)
Ten years too late
I did have a good time the first 45 min. or so, but then suddenly it was all down hill. The suspense somewhat started to get thin and the jokes somewhat the same all over. What kept it going were the good actors.
But the problem with this film is that it is trying to be cleverly funny,like Tarantino and god is that outdated stuff. Tarantino being a bit overrated sometimes, this movie comes ten years too late. At best it is for teenagers, and I am sure many of them find the character of Johann funny, which he is for the first 30 min. The other problem I have with it is that the story fades away towards the end more and more, thou I tried to find a recovery point. Maybe it didn't recover because the lack of passion comes with the effort of trying to be cleverly funny. Also, like in many movies, sure, good actors who can afford it don't seem to demand a better dialogue, or just turn down the script.