In 2021, as the lockdowns were multiplying, the initial emotions and movie-making reactions got more eloquent, and films inspired by our new reality managed to find their niche not only in festivals’ special segments, but also in main competitions.
‘Between Earth and the Moon’ works both as a smart light-SF mystery-thriller ideal to be shown as an introductory film at a midnight slot…
Animalia is clearly a mood piece a portrait of a wounded soul, so the unclear plot and relations between the characters are not the critical flaw.
Bahare Ruch’s autobiographical documentary Bussi, Baba that currently plays at the Shortfish competition of Stockfish deals with her growing up in the midst of her parents’ divorce.
Plot-wise, Blindsided walks on the fairly familiar territory, but Bjarnason is a competent storyteller to make it interesting.
Ólason embraces the clichés of the festival-friendly Icelandic cinema in order to tell the ages old story of fatherhood and turns them into the film’s strength.
If you think you are having a bad day, remember that someone else is probably having even a worse one.
Monday seems like an ambitiously constructed film, especially for a short, but ends up resembling an exercise in style when it comes to the “hyperlink” filmmaking.
The story itself is fun enough to follow and keeps the viewer in the light laugh-ready mood for all of the film’s 13 minutes of runtime by playing with our expectations.
