Hafið (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Baltasar Kormákur

Escritores:

Baltasar Kormákur (writer)
Ólafur Haukur Símonarson (play)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 septiembre 2002 (Iceland)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

The truth lies beneath the surface

Plot:

A rich father in a fisher village plans to take on the project of writing his life story. But first he has to take on his own family, and everybody wants something...

Plot Keywords:

Sexual Abuse | Fishing | Dysfunctional Family | Snow | Family Relationships

Premios:

10 wins & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Above average but mostly unremarkable dysfunctional family drama.

Reparto

Gunnar Eyjólfsson	...	Þórður
Hilmir Snær Guðnason	...	Ágúst
Hélène de Fougerolles	...	Françoise
Kristbjörg Kjeld	...	Kristín
Sven Nordin	...	Morten
Guðrún Gísladóttir	...	Ragnheiður
Sigurður Skúlason	...	Haraldur
Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir	...	Áslaug
Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir	...	María
Herdís Þorvaldsdóttir	...	Kata
Þórir Gunnar Jónsson	...	Teenager
Theódór Júlíusson	...	Bóbó
Hjalti Rögnvaldsson	...	Bensó
Ellert Ingimundarson	...	Hannes
Magnús Ragnarsson	...	Agent

También conocida como:

The Sea (Canada: English title) (France) (International: English title)
Havet (Norway)

Duración:

109 min

País:

Iceland | France | Norway

Idioma:

Islandés | Noruego | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Hong Kong:III | Norway:15 | Germany:12 | Singapore:R(A) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich)

Locaciones de Filmación:

France

Compañía:

Blueeyes Productions

Trivialidades:

Despite the fact that 'Herdís orvaldsdóttir' is only 3 years older than Gunnar Eyjólfsson, she plays his mother in the movie.

Citas:

Kata: Anyone who doesn't eat whale, doesn't deserve to live.

Above average but mostly unremarkable dysfunctional family drama.

Reasonably well acted and written, and it had what I went to it for, namely Iceland, but otherwise it was the same old dysfunctional family melodrama I've seen 500 times before. It was occasionally interesting to note parallels to the old sagas - Icelandic writers seem to be constitutionally incapable of not referring to them, but I guess if you have a living 1000 year old literary tradition, you might as well use it.

If it was set in New York, I wouldn't have wasted my time on it though. If you've seen a lot of movies, you'll probably be thinking things like "not the freaking dinner-table meltdown scene again" as you watch it go through all the standard dysfunctional-family plot devices.