Gemsar (2002)

Kids/teenagers/grown-ups from the age 14-16 growing up and finding out about what it all includes. Does the relationship with your parents always have to be difficult? Does love come by ... See full summary »

Director:

Mikael Torfason

Writer:

Mikael Torfason

Stars:

Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir, Andri Ómarsson, Guðlaugur Karlsson

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir	...	Kristín
Andri Ómarsson	...	Doddi
Guðlaugur Karlsson	...	Gulli
Matthías Matthíasson	...	Smári
Kári Gunnarsson	...	Maggi
Dagbjört Rós Helgadóttir	...	Guðmunda
Fanný Ósk Grímsdóttir	...	Laufey
Sigríður Sæland Óladóttir	...	Sigrún
Herborg Drífa Jónasardóttir	...	Embla
Óðinn Guðmundsson	...	Kristín's Big Brother
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Atli Gunnarsson	...	Hjalti (scenes deleted)
Sigrún Gylfadóttir	...	Kristíns mother
Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson	...	Dr.Love (as Páll Óskar)

Storyline

Kids/teenagers/grown-ups from the age 14-16 growing up and finding out about what it all includes. Does the relationship with your parents always have to be difficult? Does love come by itself? A story of teenagers realizing themselves and others.

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Taglines:

Everything you did not know about teenagers and did not want to know!

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Iceland

Language:

Icelandic

Release Date:

1 February 2002 (Iceland)

Also Known As:

Mad in Iceland

Box Office

Budget:

€550,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zik Zak Kvikmyndir, Northern Lights Communication, Pluton

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Everything you did not know about teenagers and did not want to know! .....and I want to keep it that way

I don't know what the idea was making this film. Was it supposed to be "a shocker" as the tag line implies ("Everything you did not know about teenagers and did not want to know!"). Was it supposed to be a realistic slice of life type of film, without a particular emphasis on any one character or theme? What was this film about, if anything? Pointless, direction-less, unfocused film that had very little to say and seems to have had the sole aim of shocking people by showing them horror stories from the real world of teenagedom (a well Larry Clark has already sucked dry).

And what do we get. Teen drinking, date rape, a little driver's ed fondling, and I think I remember seeing a reefer in there somewhere....zounds! Even the most complacent suburban housewife, upon seeing this, would reply, "seen that, done that".

What Mikael Torfason got from making Gemsar was good preparation for his future job as an editor of the tabloid "DV". What the rest of us got from seeing it was 80 minutes of waste.

Someone needs to give Icelandic teenagers the film they deserve.