Kari combines Kaurismaki's deadpan minimalism and Truffaut's sensitivity toward adolescent yearning with a hefty dose of gallows humor, and tops it all off with an apocalyptic ending.
Noi the Albino(Nói albínói)
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Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom · 2003
Rated PG-13 · 1h 30m
Director Dagur Kári
Starring Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir, Hjalti Rögnvaldsson
Genre Drama
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On a remote and lonely Icelandic fjord, 17-year-old Noi is drifting through his boring life. At a local gas station, Noi meets Iris, a city girl who shares his burning desire of leaving the fjord. But their clumsy plan for escape soon spirals out of control.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
After a while the movie spins its wheels, unable to find much emotional traction in the icy bleakness.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Quirky, heartfelt acting makes this a superior entry in the perennial teenage-misfit genre.
An inspired mix of realism, humor and metaphor.
A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kári's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching.
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape.
Performances are spot-on from the entire cast; each memorable character is finely detailed and full of eccentricities that are beautifully underplayed.
Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki.
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