Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she is oblivious to what’s going on with her twelve year old Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund’s only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his fourties who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marinó starts to lose grip on reality.
Acting
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson's Marinó is devastatingly fragile.
Writing
Parallel descents that never intersect—brutal structural choice.
Direction
Bragason's Iceland looks like emotional hypothermia.
Director
Ragnar Bragason
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Iceland's 'Dark Wave' cinema movement—Bragason and Baltasar Kormákur putting Icelandic misery on the map before it was trendy.
Gísli Örn Garðarsson plays Georg, a small role, but he'd become Iceland's biggest theatre director—this was his reluctant film era.
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