Noi the Albino (Nói albínói) (2003)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 7
A darkly humorous, quirky coming-of-age film, enhanced by its Icelandic setting.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 3
A darkly humorous, quirky coming-of-age film, enhanced by its Icelandic setting.
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Noi Albinoi is the feature-length debut from Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari. Set in an isolated fjord during the dead of winter, teenager Noi (Tomas Lemarquis) is stuck living with his grandma Lina (Anna Fridriksdottir). His mother is gone and his father, Kiddi (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson), is busy battling alcoholism. Although he's incredibly bright, Noi gets kicked out of school for cutting class and setting up clever pranks. With nothing to do in the frozen wilderness, he eventually meets gas
Cast
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Tómas Lemarquis
Noi -
Throstur Leo Gunnarsson
Kiddi -
Elín Hansdóttir
Iris -
Anna Fridriksdottir
Lina -
Hjalti Rognvaldsson
Oskar -
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Kjartan Bjargmundsson
Gylfin -
Greipur Gislason
Dabbi -
Sveinn Geirsson
Policeman 1 rescuer -
Gudmundur Olafsson
teacher -
Haraldur Jónsson
psychiatrist -
Gérard Lemarquis
French teacher -
Páll Loftsson
Pabbi Dabbi bank manage... -
Ásdís Theroddsen
bank clerk -
Ásmunder Ásmundsson
bartender -
??ttar Proppé
assistant men's clothin... -
Gunnhilder Björk Elasidot...
woman in kiosk -
Unnar Reynisson
doorman -
Thorgeir Gudmundsson
policeman 2 -
Helgi E. Helgasom
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (7) | DVD (14)
A better-than- average tale of teenage angst that balances its tone between sorrow and buoyant good cheer.
Top CriticWho can resist a movie set in a town where the natural history museum, filled with stuffed polar bears and such, is 'the wildest place in town'?
Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
As a drama, Nòi seems as cold as the icy land in which it takes place. But it still offers a glimpse into a rarely seen world, and more adventurous moviegoers will find it eye-opening.
A memorably bleak Icelandic exercise graced by the arresting performance of Tómas Lemarquis in the title role.
The film is so recessive that at times it threatens to disappear into itself, but director Kari saves it with delicious images of absurdity and entrapment.
Begins as a standard quirky, indie coming-of-age film, but slowly -- like melting ice -- turns into something more profound and genuinely touching.
Satisfaisant, mais on commence à connaitre la chanson un peu trop par cur.
Left me too much in the cold to warm up to it.
Here is an absurd black comedy that is not afraid to give us some insight into the often dark dealings of the teenage psyche.
Holds the attention with imaginative detail and a veneer of deadpan humor, like thin ice over a sea of despair
A quirky, amusing little film.
Kári's deadpan humor instills the film's emptiness with a warm glow.
Its unusual ambiance and quirky turns make it a peculiarly affecting addition to the coming-of-age genre.
The director is constantly playing off the bleakness -- as well as the beauty -- of the Icelandic surroundings.
After spending most of an hour being made to care about how Nói will solve his problems, our emotional investment evaporates like dot-com stock.
If you see only one quirky coming-of-age movie set on a remote Icelandic fiord this year, make it Noi.
Proceeds at a, no pun intended, glacial pace ... but the film is possessed of something more important: a bone-weary honesty at the travails of being young, different, and stuck somewhere you don't want to be.
Meditation on loneliness and isolation not highly entertaining but offers food for thought
Like Donnie Darko and Rushmore, Noi marks the arrival of a young filmmaker whose career is full of promise.
Unfortunately, we're not given much reason to care about this mopey bore, and I found my mind wandering as it did in a previous Icelandic film, Reykjavik 101.
Kári captures the contradictory sense of claustrophobia and emptiness that is both real and metaphoric. And Lemarquis is very watchable, as is Hansdóttir as Iris.
The movie is kind of like Nói - going nowhere fast. There are interesting characters that are good for some laughs, but the story runs out of gas and never quite recovers.
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