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Winter Brothers(Vinterbrødre)

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Denmark, Iceland · 2017
1h 40m
Director Hlynur Pálmason
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lars Mikkelsen
Genre Drama

Winter Brothers follows two miner brothers, Emil and Johan. Emil is an outsider who is only accepted by the mining community because of his older brother Johan. He longs for passion and for being loved. When a fellow worker becomes sick, Emil is the prime suspect. Gradually a violent feud erupts between him and the tightly-knit mining community.

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50

Screen International by Allan Hunter

Elements of craft and performance are very persuasive but the slight storyline and recourse to awkward flights of fancy make it a film that never quite gels.

50

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Mr. Palmason’s showy technique, magnetic on its own, ultimately seems like a way of adding mystery to a story that, like Emil, is content with having no place to go.

60

Village Voice by Danny King

Pálmason can occasionally get bogged down in his ambiguous leanings.... But many moments attest to the high ceiling of Pálmason’s abilities.

80

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

The cast, including Victoria Carmen Sonne, as the object of both Emil and Johan’s affections, and Lars Mikkelsen, as the quarry boss, is uniformly strong and singular.

70

Variety by Jessica Kiang

While we may not always know what Pálmason means, there’s the undeniable sense that he does, and mostly, that’s enough to add up to an impressively original, auspiciously idiosyncratic debut, one that scratches away at truths about masculinity, lovelessness and isolation, that are no less true for being all but inexpressible.

75

RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

On the one hand, it never quite works in a conventionally satisfying manner—it is wildly uneven, occasionally obtuse and it never quite seems to have a solid grasp on what it is trying to say. On the other hand, it still manages to register in a number of unusual ways thanks to its haunting visual style, offbeat tone, and its intriguing method to put us into the disintegrating mindset of its central character.

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