Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his family. A gallery of humorous, off-beat characters is revealed, who's seemingly ordinary lives conceal bitter divorces, passionate second marriages, vengeance, luck and misfortune, crime and punishment.
Direction
Bertelsson blurs reality and fiction with deceptive ease.
Acting
The cast plays their own dysfunction with unnerving authenticity.
Director
Þráinn Bertelsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Þráinn Bertelsson was a prominent Icelandic filmmaker who often explored documentary-fiction hybrids in the 1990s.
The film captures post-Cold War Iceland grappling with rapid social change through the lens of domestic chaos.
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