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...jetted around Europe snapping up companies and finding ever new ways to get rich. Their world collapsed this fall, along with Iceland's economy. So it's fitting that another - and very different - Icelander is stepping in to take their place on the world stage. His name is Erlendur Sveinsson, and he's a gloomy, introverted and thoroughly unhappy man who dislikes the way Iceland has been modernizing. His family life is a mess, with a divorced wife who refuses to talk to him, a drug-addict daughter and a moody son. And his idea of a good evening...
...can’t do it, we will.”Dean DeBlois’s directorial work is spectacularly disjointed. Rapid shifts from concert to landscape and back again occur throughout. At one point the looks deeply focused on their music, and in the next frame pianist Kjartan Sveinsson leans on his keyboard and stares into the distance. During the portions of the film where the band is shown performing, the audio occasionally doesn’t match the accompanying visual. Views of the audience show young children, grandparents, and many people who probably have never heard Sigur...
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