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Beautiful Beings

Original title: Berdreymi
  • 20222022
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 2h 3m
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Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
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A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother takes a bullied kid into his gang of violent outsiders.A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother takes a bullied kid into his gang of violent outsiders.A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother takes a bullied kid into his gang of violent outsiders.
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    • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
    • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
  • Stars
    • Birgir Dagur Bjarkason
    • Áskell Einar Pálmason
    • Viktor Benóný Benediktsson
    • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
    • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
  • Stars
    • Birgir Dagur Bjarkason
    • Áskell Einar Pálmason
    • Viktor Benóný Benediktsson
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    • 6User reviews
    • 49Critic reviews
    • 58Metascore
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    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Áskell Einar Pálmason in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Áskell Einar Pálmason in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)
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    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson in Beautiful Beings (2022)

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    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason
    • Addi
    Áskell Einar Pálmason
    Áskell Einar Pálmason
    • Balli
    Viktor Benóný Benediktsson
    Viktor Benóný Benediktsson
    • Konni
    Snorri Rafn Frímannsson
    Snorri Rafn Frímannsson
    • Siggi
    Anita Briem
    Anita Briem
    • Guðrún (Addi's mother)
    Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir
    Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir
    • Hulda (Balli's mother)
    Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
    Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
    • Svenni
    Kristín Ísold Jóhannesdóttir
    Kristín Ísold Jóhannesdóttir
    • Hófí (Balli's sister)
    Blær Hinriksson
    Blær Hinriksson
    • Símon
    Theodór Pálsson
    • Danni Braindead
    Kamilla Guðrún Lowen
    • Anna
    Aðalbjörg Emma Hafsteinsdóttir
    • Fríða
    Sunna Líf Arnarsdóttir
    • Helga
    Davíð Guðbrandsson
    • Haukur (Addi's father)
    Þórhildur Ingunn
    Þórhildur Ingunn
    • Elísa (Addi's sister)
    • (as Þórhildur Ingunn Pétursdóttir)
    Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir
    Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir
    • Unnur (Balli's social worker)
    Árni Arnarson
    • Toni
    Stefán Franz Guðnason
    • Jónas
      • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
      • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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    9/10
    Mesmerising performances from one of the great young casts
    A captivating, often brutal dip into the lives of four 14-year-old boys in roughly 2000-era Iceland. Addi, the one with a conscience, takes badly bullied Balli into his group of friends after feeling a twinge of compassion at seeing him being mistreated. The acting from the four first-time protagonists is exceptional. Award-worthy. I can easily see them being named joint best actors at festivals (I saw it twice in Berlin).

    Áskell Einar Pálmason as Balli delivers an understated masterclass in nervous glances, twitches and despair. It's all the more impressive to see how, as the character eases into life with his first friends, his body language changes, almost imperceptibly.

    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason may well take the plaudits with his turn as Addi, he carries the film on his young shoulders and doesn't put a foot wrong, whether joining in the violence or experiencing the dreamlike (often nightmarish) visions that give the film its Icelandic name.

    Snorri Rafn Frímannsson has less to do as Siggi than the others but has charisma and backs the others up as his character does on screen.

    But for me it is Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, as Konni, who delivers the star turn. A thug known as The Animal, his Konni is able to deliver the aggression needed to make his character believable, punching and swinging wildly through the film in an often terrifying manner. But one by one the layers are stripped away to reveal - not that he would admit it - the scared boy trapped in the young man's body. Such a broad performance would test actors twice his age but he aces it. They all do.

    A note on the fight scenes, which through a combination of beautiful camera work and expert, almost balletic choreography come across as some of the most realistic I can remember. This isn't filmic violence, these are kids kicking lumps out of each other. Harsh, cold, real, shocking.

    One criticism comes in the pacing at the end and an inclusion of possibly too many story strands that don't really have chance to justify their place in the final film. It feels a bit like a 2h30 film that a producer has demanded becomes 2hrs. If that's the case I hope a director's cut will follow - I would gladly spend all day in the company of the fascinating characters that director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson has so expertly and lovingly brought to the screen.
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      • April 22, 2022 (Iceland)
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      • Reykjavík, Iceland
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