Year: 2010
Directors: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Writers: Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir, Baldvin Zophoníasson
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Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
A very decent Icelandic coming-of-age drama sees sixteen year-old Gabríel visiting Britain for a week to improve his English skills, where he meets and befriends Markús, a fellow student who's far more boisterous and arrogant, and therefor gets them served alcohol at the local pub. On the way home from a drunken night out they share a bottle of beer and sit by a tree in a park. There's an awkward silence, and then they kiss.
It's a great screen kiss, perhaps the highlight of a film that unfortunately gets bogged down after it's first chapter...
On return to Iceland we are introduced to Gabríel's social circle, and the film spends time following his various friends, all of whom are at the age where raging hormones give cause for experimentation and...
Directors: Baldvin Zophoníasson
Writers: Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir, Baldvin Zophoníasson
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
A very decent Icelandic coming-of-age drama sees sixteen year-old Gabríel visiting Britain for a week to improve his English skills, where he meets and befriends Markús, a fellow student who's far more boisterous and arrogant, and therefor gets them served alcohol at the local pub. On the way home from a drunken night out they share a bottle of beer and sit by a tree in a park. There's an awkward silence, and then they kiss.
It's a great screen kiss, perhaps the highlight of a film that unfortunately gets bogged down after it's first chapter...
On return to Iceland we are introduced to Gabríel's social circle, and the film spends time following his various friends, all of whom are at the age where raging hormones give cause for experimentation and...
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