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05/05/04
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Noi (2004)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:45
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A darkly humorous, quirky coming-of-age film, enhanced by its Icelandic setting.
Theatrical Release:Mar 19, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: In a tiny village located in the remote West Fjords of Iceland, Noi lives a strangely quiet life with his grandmother. A 17-year-old afflicted by the typical symptoms of teenage angst, who longs... [More]
Starring: Tomas Lemarquis, Throstur Leo Gunnarsson, Elin Hansdottir, Anna Fridriksdottir
Director: Dagur Kari
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Reviews for Noi
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.
05/05/04
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.
05/05/04
Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
04/30/04
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.
04/30/04
As a drama, Nňi 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.
04/29/04
Top CriticA memorably bleak Icelandic exercise graced by the arresting performance of Tómas Lemarquis in the title role.
04/29/04
Top CriticThe 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.
04/23/04
Noi should appeal to those with more quirky tastes.
04/23/04
...a hip rendition of a familiar tale made unfamiliar by its exotic location and it's genuinely surprise ending. Writer/director Kári is one to watch.
04/20/04
A wry comment on coming of age and small-town life.
04/16/04
Who knew a movie in a setting so cold could be so warm? Read on->
04/14/04
Strictly ironic yet surprisingly touching portrait of a lost, latter-day Viking who wouldn't know what to do with a rudder even if he could find one.
04/09/04
As many times as we may feel we've seen this story -- maybe not in Iceland, but somewhere -- Kári approaches the material with a sensibility closer to the deadpan grace of Aki Kaurismäki than the suburban melancholy of John Hughes.
04/08/04
Droll, dry and delicate, it's the kind of humor that makes it hard to decide if Noi is a comic story with tragic elements or the other way around.
04/08/04
Top CriticA film of wry, black humor and small moments...whose ominous ending combines the mythic and the everyday, leaving an unsettling ambiguity and many questions.
04/04/04
looks at first like an episode of Northern Exposure.
03/30/04
Like its hero ... it's just a little too uninterested in being liked -- and a little too devoted to being flagrantly, foolishly odd.
03/25/04
Top CriticNoi is a quirky coming-of-age drama about one troubled youth's yearning to escape the ice, the snow and the predictability of his home in Iceland.
03/21/04
Too funny to be considered a tragedy but too melancholy to fit neatly in the comedy category, this bittersweet delight from Iceland is as about as unique and unclassifiable as its hero.
03/19/04
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