An often moving story of an Icelandic boy and his coming, or losing, of age. A lot of the goodness is novelty with the coincidental explosion of Icelandic music and general fascination in the states (sigur ros, mum, slowblow, etc), but I really do believe it's coincidental (although, I must admit, it's why I picked it up in the first place). There are some things blatantly outstanding in the film, and the acting is one. Be either emotionally open or wide awake for this movie. The soundtrack is patently slowblow, and it reflects the movie perfectly. Seeing the movie more than once gives you a feeling of how the ending happens and what it represents, firing the shotgun into the mountains mid-film represents a lot of things. Certain scenes are hilarious, but few are outrageously emotionally moving unless you make them to be, which is really not awfully difficult as the film can be seen as a white sheet of paper for your own interpretation and relation to. A very good first film, oozing with style but oozing without pretension. Happy Movies
Review of Noi the Albino
