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Review: UNDER THE TREE, Where a Feud Begins
On the heels of Winter Brothers, a dramedy about alienation, brotherhood and "being loved and fucked" (read the review), comes yet another Icelandic dramedy, Under the Tree. Compared to the artist Hlynur Pálmason behind Winter Brothers, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson has...
Venice 2017 Review: UNDER THE TREE, Reason Eclipsed in Dark Icelandic Social Satire
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson third feature, a social satire Under the Tree, aptly embodies the present times when primal urges emerge coagulating the state of civilization into homo homini lupus-type of society when populism and other forms of extremism cast thick shadows over reason.
Stormland has a trailer.
A few months ago I posted about the Icelandic dark comedy Stormland, based on the best selling book of the same name by Icelandic author Hallgrímur Helgason.The film, directed by Marteinn (One point O) Thorsson, tells the story about a bitter man...
