Rams(Hrútar)

The Guardian by

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

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

The movie, wry and melancholy, doesn't linger over its artistry.

Variety by Alissa Simon

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

Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

Rams may sound bleak and unforgiving but it has a generous spirit and wit that make it entirely accessible.

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

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

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.

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.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

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.