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Iceland, Germany, Denmark · 2006
1h 33m
Director Baltasar Kormákur
Starring Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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In a small town in Iceland, the discovery of a murder begins to uncover secrets and corruption long since buried, apparently connected it to the murder of a small child long ago. A father has lost his daughter to a rare genetic disease, and struggles to find how it has gotten into his family, but finds a link with the murder.
Here, the movie's urgency lies mostly in its convincing cast, its varied urban-to-pastoral locations (in light that ranges from harsh to bilious), and its cold-pro handling of familiar genre machinery, made fresh by unusual detail--such as the investigator's fast-food predilection for sheep heads.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Jar City is chilly and cerebral but also morbidly and powerfully alive to grossness and physicality.
Comic, disturbing and affecting by turns, and often all at the same time. Its funniest scenes are also its most unsettling.
A taut police procedural that craftily blends ripped-from-the-headlines genetic issues with foreboding Icelandic stoicism, Jar City reps a supremely confident stride into mass-appeal genre fare for Icelandic hyphenate Baltasar Kormakur.
The story, based on a best-selling novel, has familiar overtones; but Kormakur overcomes them with stylish direction - Iceland's natural beauty looks great - and a gripping performance by Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson.
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