101 Reykjavik

“A family dinner or a funeral… better the funeral, there would at least be one idiot less.” A remarkable Icelandic comedy that fascinated me mainly by how often it managed to surprise me, although after a few minutes I thought that it could no longer do it, that I was ready for everything ... A very likeable and incorrect flick. (11/02/2012)

Vu dans le cadre du « Challenge Tour 2015 : 30 jours de cinéma mondial ». Film numéro 3 – Islande. La première déception du Tour est arrivée fort tôt. Un film louf avec un personnage principal antipathique qui patauge dans sa vie, surtout au chapitre des amours. Je me suis beaucoup ennuyé et ne me souviens que de plus ou moins deux répliques marrantes. Encore heureux que Victoria Abril soit agréable à regarder. Kormákur me convainc davantage avec ses films policiers et d'action, mais tout le monde doit bien se lancer d'une manière ou d'une autre et, pour un premier film, ce n'est pas non plus un flop absolu. (05/04/2015)

I found Hlynur, the main "hero," so extremely unlikable that I started wishing his face would get hit by a shovel real hard about seven minutes into the film. The story had a touch of drama, and every now and then I detected a hint of black humor, but there just wasn’t enough of it to have any effect on my rating. In fact, the film slightly bored me most of the time and allowed my thoughts to wander. And I don’t want that to happen, as they might not all come back to me. When a film can’t get my full attention or loses it in the process, it's not a good sign. It means that I'm either not the target audience or that it's just not any good. Either way, I didn't have much fun today. / Lesson learned: Alcoholics Anonymous sure have it tough in Iceland. (24/09/2022)