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101 Reykjavik [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Victoria Abril
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Victoria Abril, Baltasar Kormákur, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Hilmir Snćr Gudnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir
  • Directors: Baltasar Kormákur
  • Format: Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Fox Lorber
  • DVD Release Date: 15 April 2003
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008973P
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 103,445 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar Kormákur's debut film 101 Reykjavík is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker and one-man Nordic-gloom factory; "I'll be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death," he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner--whose highpoint is watching a video of last year's ditto--you can see his point. Distraction, and a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mother's flamenco teacher Lola (the delicious Victoria Abril). Only after sleeping with her does he discover that she's not just Mum's teacher, but her lover as well.

A little like Pål Sletaune's 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavík gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist's sheer social and emotional ineptitude--though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We've been here before, of course--as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood--but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormákur's film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether--in view of remarks like "Reykjavík is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,"--it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter!

On the DVD: Filmographies for Kormákur, Abril, and lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles and menu; and the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. The sound is clean and immediate (score co-composed by Damon Albarn) and the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio. --Philip Kemp

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Black ice comedy, 17 Aug 2006
By James Aitken (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 101 Reykjavik [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
On one level this film has a somewhat "run of the mill" story line. It can be viewed as the story of a twenty-something male unable to grow up or form relationships. The kind of story we've all seen many times before. However, the beauty of the film lies in its eccentric characters and setting and the black comedy moments that are provided throughout (such as the main character's unsuccesful attempt to kill himself on the top of a mountain).

The main character Hlynur is unemployed, has a bad on/off relationship and has no idea what to do with his life other than surf for internet porn and get drunk - indeed he says at one point that its as if he is dead. Into his life, one Christmas, comes his mother's Spanish flamenco teacher (who, it later transpires, is also his mother's lesbian lover). All hell proceeds to break loose. Somehow, despite the depression of some of the situations they engineer themseleves into, one can't help but like Hlynur, and all of the characters in the film.

The film is a bit let down by its ending, which is a bit too "happy ever after" (Noi Albinoi is a similar film from Iceland but a great deal more "edgier"). It redeems itself with its the soundtrack which is really original. All in all this is a pleasant evening's viewing, and something different - I didn't really find it as depressing as some of the other reviewers seem to have found it.
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Zany black comedy, 17 Dec 2001
This review is from: 101 Reykjavik [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
101 Reykjavík is set against the backdrop of Iceland's swinging nightlife based on Hallgrimur Helgason's novel with the same title.
Besides, it features a wonderful musical score by Damon Albarn and Einar Orn Benedíktsson.
The weakest point is not in the film itself, but in the fact you can't choose different languages or subtitles. (The main soundtrack is in icelandic and the subtitles only are in english). Sometimes it gets hard to understand Victoria Abril's english, even for me (I'm from Spain).
Anyway, it's worth it. Enjoy this fantastic film.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fall in love twice!, 14 May 2006
By Miss Wolfie (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 101 Reykjavik [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
Not one to give away the plot, all I can say is that this film is an absolute gem and I can't recommend it highly enough. Be prepared to fall in love with the 2 main characters as well as Iceland!! BUY IT!!
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