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13 sty 2023 · Given its themes of teenage angst and topical exploration of the rising violence amongst the youth of Iceland, it's easy to see why this coming-of-age drama was chosen over the far-superior, yet more challenging period piece "Godland" from director Hlynur Pálmason.
Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn...
12 sty 2023 · In this brutal Icelandic drama, four teenagers — both bullies and the bullied — struggle and rage against a world that rages back. From left, Snorri Rafn Frimannsson, Viktor Benony Benediktsson,...
20 lut 2022 · ‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: An Icelandic Coming-of-Age Tale Radiant with Violence and Tenderness Reviewed in Berlin Film Festival (Panorama), Jan. 31, 2022. Running time: 123 MIN.
14 sty 2023 · Beautiful Beings (2022) Movie Review: An achingly beautiful introspection on growth, vulnerability and the impact of violence
Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Beautiful Beings is a brutal yet abundantly tender coming-of-age tale that examines how intergenerational trauma mars the friendships that...
12 lut 2022 · Aligning itself with the bleaker coming-of-age films, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Beautiful Beings takes on the glamour and the anxieties that define teenagehood. Through the 39-year-old’s lens, the brutality and camaraderie of these formative years blend seamlessly while conjuring a contemplation of friendship, violence, and abuse that ...
