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Love at 7-11 / The Sea
{*} Well, Love at 7-11 was sold out - sorry to the scores of people who wanted to see it... my bad.
{*} The Sea - It was good. Really good. Film Fest rux!
Review by some guy on rottentomatoes.com:
by Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal
Rating: FRESH
A day in the life of a spectacularly dysfunctional family, Baltasar Kormakur's follow-up to "101 Reykjavik" is unpredictable to say the least. It starts with a bang but soon settles into an almost boringly low-key drama about how an old man, whose fishing and processing company has been holding together a small Iceland village, is being bullied into selling his fish quotas to a big corporation by his own son. As we meet the rest of the family, each member quirkier than the next, "The Sea" shifts to a bittersweet but comedic tone, before ultimately escalating into over-the-top melodrama drenched in alcohol, unhealthy sexual urges and old grudges bursting out. This makes for a wildly unbalanced film, hardly subtle but intense.
[Love at 7-11 / The Sea]
Sngs Alumni @ 28.4.03 { }
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