Stormy Weather

Name: Stormy Weather
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-09-19
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Didda Jónsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur

20032003
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

253

YOUR RATING

Drama

A very sad but genuinely human story. The middle-aged Icelandic woman Loa is seriously mentally ill. Finally it turns out that her husband is a latent alcoholic who submits to his addiction ... Read allA very sad but genuinely human story. The middle-aged Icelandic woman Loa is seriously mentally ill. Finally it turns out that her husband is a latent alcoholic who submits to his addiction whenever Loa leaves him. When she is at home, she is living a normal life and taking care ... Read allA very sad but genuinely human story. The middle-aged Icelandic woman Loa is seriously mentally ill. Finally it turns out that her husband is a latent alcoholic who submits to his addiction whenever Loa leaves him. When she is at home, she is living a normal life and taking care of her children. Sometimes she cannot stand it any longer and just runs away. During one s... Read all

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

253

YOUR RATING

See production, box office & company info

See more at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations

Photos

Sólveig Anspach at an event for Stormy Weather (2003)

Add photo

More like this

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.6

7.3

6.4

6.7

7.3

7.4

6.2

7.4

The Dreamlife of Angels

5.9

A Little Trip to Heaven

Featured review

Transference

Very well acted by Elodie Bouchez and particularly by Didda Jonsdottir, Stormy Weather shows a course of psychiatric treatment that fails when the psychiatrist falls into a variety of the mutism of her patient. They achieve emotional rapport, but it's not clear how treatment would have proceeded, since the doctor (or intern?) was using French to address the silent patient, while it appears, after the patient has been transported back to Iceland, that English is the most common second language there. Was the illustrated nasty weather and volcanism of Iceland the cause of the patient's condition? Let's hope not. Could the doctor have left some therapeutic hints with the woman's husband and the local general M.D.? She might have, but she's becoming a patient herself.

helpful•2