Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 5
A funny, offbeat romantic comedy about an unlikely tryst with the beautiful Icelandic landscape as a backdrop.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 1
A funny, offbeat romantic comedy about an unlikely tryst with the beautiful Icelandic landscape as a backdrop.
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A slacker finds himself dealing with girl trouble he never knew existed in this offbeat comedy set in Iceland. Hlynur (Hilmir Snær Gudnason) is a 28-year-old layabout who lives with his mother, Berglind (Hanna María Karlsdóttir), in a run-down section of Reykjavík. Though he doesn't have a job, Hlynur makes enough off the dole to spend his evenings drinking beer, and has a girlfriend, Hofi (Thrúdur Vilhjálmdóttir), who regards his lack of ambition with a mildly annoyed tolerance. Berglind
Jan 19, 2001 Limited
Apr 15, 2003
Menemsha
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (5) | DVD (4)
A times as flatly deadpan as Hylner, at others as passionately eccentric as Abril's Lola, 101 Reykjavik is at least dedicatedly unexpected.
Imagine, if you dare, Ingmar Bergman as a consummate slacker with a wicked sense of pop humour.
There's something juicily amusing about the nonjudgmental way Kormakur views his characters.
Gudnason makes a delightful anti-hero, Abril is a kick in the pants and the snowy locations are nicely integrated.
In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.
For non-Icelandic viewers, 101 Reykjavik is ... of interest for the beautifully photographed glimpse, eccentric though it may be, into life in that little-known country.
A tightly packed little snowball of a comedy that picks up steam as it rolls along.
Everything about this Icelandic sitcom comedy seemed off kilter.
It's a strange and distant tale that would only appear on Jerry Springer in America but comes off as quirky and cute when presented from the cold Nordic perspective.
A film that's as outlandish as it is entertaining.
Fails because it's nearly impossible to care about the main character.
Kormakur ... balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence.
Culture clashes, gender roles and political correctnesses all get their moment in this droll winner.
...there is more intelligence and humor in this 93-minute diamond-in-the-rough than in 10 American coming-of-age flicks.
funny, sexy, and utterly moored in its distinctive landscape
As a tour through the messy lifestyles of the young and the wasted in Europe's most remote yet hippest capital, it's entertaining and often hilarious.
Hilmer Snaer Gudnason makes Hylner ... weirdly sweet and appealing, and as for the rest of the cast, well, we've yet to see a movie that was not vastly improved by the presence of Victoria Abril.
I really like this film, it made me read the book (also good) and now I really want to go to Iceland (Not the frozen food specialist).
October 1, 2009Super Reviewer
Icelandic eurotrash about sex, drugs, parties, lesbians and the difficulties of growing up.
April 28, 2007Super Reviewer
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