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Rams(Hrútar)

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Iceland, Denmark, Norway · 2015
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Grímur Hákonarson
Starring Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte Bøving, Jón Benónýsson
Genre Drama

Brothers Gummi and Kiddi haven't spoken to one another for 40 years, but when a lethal disease threatens their lineage of prize-winning sheep, they are forced to band together to save their land, their way of life, and their sibling relationship.

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The Guardian by

Rams is as curiously captivating as the bleak landscape in which the two protagonists site themselves.

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Variety by Alissa Simon

As Hakonarson’s beautifully modulated film progresses, recurring images contrast and poignantly resonate with meaning.

75

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Every moment in writer-director Grímur Hákonarson's strange and wonderful film is imbued with mystery and revealing dignity.

80

Empire by David Parkinson

Switching from dour humour to humanist drama without seeming contrived, this is a masterclass in combining character and landscape that is played with deceptive poignancy by the excellent leads.

75

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

When it reveals its true colors late on, as less of an examination of a rarefied lifestyle and more of an ancient story of brotherhood broken and remade, the cumulative power of all those observed moments comes through.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

Hakonarson observes all this with the practiced eye of a good documentarian but, in the compositions, the rigorous timing of the editing and the performances of the two leads, he lifts the material beyond the observational to a modestly accomplished work that not only neatly observes an obscure lifestyle but brings to life a most peculiar sibling relationship.

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