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101 Reykjavik

Starring: Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Victoria Abril
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Original UK Premiere: 2001
Dvd Release: 19th May, 2003
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

Subtitled In: English

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Background Information: 101 Reykjavik

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101 Reykjavik is a 2001 comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormakur. It stars Hilmir Snaer Gudnason & Victoria Abril.

DVD Extras

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DVD Extras: Filmographies for KormÃ¡kur, Abril, & lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles & menu; & the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. The sound is clean & immediate & the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio.

Editorial DVD Review

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Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar KormÃ¡kurs debut film 101 ReykjavÃk is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker & one-man Nordic-gloom factory; Ill be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death, he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner, whose highpoint is watching a video of last years ditto, you can see his point. Distraction, & a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mothers flamenco teacher Lola . Only after sleeping with her does he discover that shes not just Mums teacher, but her lover as well.

A little like PÃ¥l Sletaunes 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 ReykjavÃk gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonists sheer social & emotional ineptitude, though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, . Weve been here before, of course, as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood, but the offbeat humour & eccentric details of KormÃ¡kurs film keep it fresh & engaging. Whether, in view of remarks like ReykjavÃk is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,, it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter!

Biography: Victoria Abril

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Victoria Abril is a highly respected Spanish film actress. She is most known to American audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! by director Pedro Almodóvar. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category & has won once. Posters Of French Twist

Editors Choice: 101 Reykjavik, Between Your Legs, French Twist, View DVDology

Biography: Baltasar Kormakur

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Baltasar KormÃ¡kur is an Icelandic actor & film director. Nowadays he is best known for his work as a director of films like 101 ReykjavÃk, HafiÃ° & A Little Trip to Heaven.

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