Bye bye bluebird

Movie
German title	Bye bye blue bird
Original title	Bye bye blue bird
Country of production	Denmark , Faroe Islands
original language	English , Faroese , Danish , French
Publishing year	1999
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Katrin Ottarsdóttir
script	Katrin Ottarsdóttir
production	Annette Nørregaard-Jensen
music	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
camera	Jørgen Johansson
cut	Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir
occupation
Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir : Rannvá Sigri Mitra Gaïni : Barba Johan Dalsgaard : Rúni Elin K. Mouritsen : Barba's mother Peter Hesse Overgaard : Rannvá's stepfather Nora Bærentsen : Rannvá's mother Egi Dam : Rannvá's father Lovisa Køtlum Petersen : Rannvá's daughter Adelborg Linklett : Rannvá's grandmother Sverri Egholm : Rannvá's grandfather Birita Mohr : Waitress / singer Sjúrður Sólstein : Smukke Høgni Johansen : Helmsman Kári Øster : Hærget Mand Anna Kristin Bæk : Blafferpige Kári Sólstein : Groom Gunnvá Zachariasen : Bride

Bye Bye Blue Bird (Abbreviation: BBBB ) is the first Faroese road movie and was premiered in 1999 .

description

"Small islands are simply not made for people, only for birds that can fly away again"

- Barba

The friends Rannvá and Barba - both models and in their mid-twenties - are returning to the Faroe Islands after a few years abroad. With their shrill appearance (colorful hair and unusual clothes) and their “continental attitude”, they fall out of the ordinary in the conformist and tradition-conscious island society. When booking into the hotel, they initially pretend to be French. Are they still Faroese women at all ?

Actually, Rannvá and Barba wanted to clarify family matters, but now they are going on a journey to themselves and their roots. The fisherman Rúni takes them with him in his old Ford Granada , which with its interior fittings (covers in zebra design, stuffed crocodile on the hat shelf and the like) perfectly matches the appearance of the two girls. Rúni "saves" them with it, and on their way to the North Islands they meet all kinds of "extremely strange" people.

Bye Bye Blue Bird is also a landscape film about the Faroe Islands. He tries to search for identity between tradition and modernity , growing up and family ties . Critics describe him as serious, believable, melodramatic and satirical. According to their own statements, the filmmakers oriented themselves towards Wim Wenders , Jim Jarmusch , Aki Kaurismäki , and Hal Hartley .

When asked how you can shoot a road movie on an archipelago that has just 1,000 kilometers of road network, Katrin Ottarsdóttir answers:

“Yes, that seems impossible - but still. The car functions as a universe. When the tour is over and the car no longer provides the framework, they [Rúni and the young women] don't have much to say to each other. I can stand that. "

Awards

• Main Prize Nordic Film Days , Lübeck 1999
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg , 1999
• Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam , 2000
• Audience award and award from the youth jury Festival du cinéma nordique , Rouen 2000

See also

• Atlantic Rhapsody

Web links

• Film website (in Faroese, Danish and English)
• Original website ( Memento of April 10, 2005 on the Internet Archive ) (in Danish and English; older, but more information)
• Rhein-Zeitung.de - audience vote on the film ( memento from April 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Filmtext.com - Detailed review ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Caution: The course of the plot is revealed there!)

• Bye Bye Bluebird in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Små øer er kun for fugle der kan flyve væk ( Memento from September 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )