Rams is as curiously captivating as the bleak landscape in which the two protagonists site themselves.
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
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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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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The movie, wry and melancholy, doesn't linger over its artistry.
As Hakonarson’s beautifully modulated film progresses, recurring images contrast and poignantly resonate with meaning.
Rams may sound bleak and unforgiving but it has a generous spirit and wit that make it entirely accessible.
Every moment in writer-director Grímur Hákonarson's strange and wonderful film is imbued with mystery and revealing dignity.
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.
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.
Rams is a truly remarkable, eccentric work.
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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