On the Town - Part II
It was a dark and stormy night. Well, it was blustery and cold, perfect weather to attend a screening of the film White Night Wedding (Br煤冒guminn), directed by Baltasar Kormakur. We were on the east side of the river for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Fest- now in its 27th year, still hopelessly disorganized, but a great way to see films from around the world. White Night Wedding is a loose adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov.
This tale of a miserable professor and his marriage woes has been turned into a dark tragicomedy set mostly on Flatey, a small island off the Icelandic coast. The mixed time line of the film, which could be a bit confusing for some viewers, unfolds slowly then gradually comes to a climax in a riotous wedding scene. Of course, any dramatic production which includes the sublime Laufey El铆asd贸ttir and a nearly-naked 脫lafur Darri 脫lafsson (I've seen three of them now!) is OK in my book. There is even has a cameo from my favorite girl group. It should be on IFC in the future, it is also Iceland's 2009 submission to the Oscars. Highly recommended.
The showing we went to was oversold, they may reprise it in May...
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M贸冒ir, kona, meyja said...
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M贸冒ir, kona, meyja said...
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Oh, I love that film. Lots of eye candies there (and not just the men...)
All that nearby culture is one of the few things I miss about the Big City. Fortunately, I do get IFC on satellite. Thanks for the tip. I'll look for it.
Does a half naked Olafur Darri Olafsson remind you of a centaur? He does have a horse face. But that would make him a reverse centaur. Nevermind.
K~ Yummy eye candy!
Jon~ IFC was one of the producers
Munkay~ I saw him perform "in the flesh" as it were- he was about twenty feet away! He is a bear of a man (M贸冒ir, kona, meyja was sweet on him in college!)
He wasn't half as heavy then as he is now...and far more innocent...
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