Nói Albínói

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Movie
German title Nói albínói
Original title Nói albínói
Country of production Iceland
original language Icelandic
Publishing year 2003
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Dagur Kári
script Dagur Kári
production Lene Ingemann ,
Kim Magnusson ,
Thor Sigurjonsson ,
Skuli Fr. Malmquist ,
Philippe Bober
music Slowblow
camera Rasmus Videbæk
cut Daniel Dencik
occupation

Noi the Albino is an Icelandic film drama from the year 2003 .

The action takes place in the dreary surroundings of a remote village in Iceland in the middle of winter . The protagonist Nói is an outsider between genius and madness , the film tells its tragic story, interspersed with comic elements.

action

17-year-old Nói Kristmundsson grew up in a dreary environment. He lives with his mostly silent grandmother, who spends her free time doing jigsaw puzzles, knitting and radio gymnastics. His father, who is too fond of alcohol , lives in rather low circumstances and works as a taxi driver.

Nói is aiming for a career as a lawyer and secretly studies specialist literature on Icelandic constitutional law in the basement. He mostly skips school and sometimes uses absurd practices in this context, such as a dictation machine that he gives his bank neighbor Davið to record the lessons for him. He spends his other free time with activities that seem strange as well, such as targeting icicles or manipulating a one -armed bandit placed in a gas station . Nói always buys malt beer from the money he "wins" .

Nói's hopelessness only changes when the girl of the same age Íris starts to work at the gas station. The shy Nói falls in love with her and together they dream of breaking out of the dreary wasteland of the village to Hawaii when they break into the museum at night . Because of his frequent absence, Nói is thrown out of school, which drives him further into loneliness. His father gets him a job as a cemetery helper for the village chaplain. Lonely and additionally frustrated by the hard work of digging a grave in the frozen ground, Nói attacks the local bank, but fails. One day he steals a car to drive into the distance. But Íris refuses to travel. Nói himself is caught by the police after a short distance, but no further prosecution due to the small size of the place.

Disappointed, Nói withdraws to his specialist books in the cellar. Shortly thereafter, an avalanche disaster struck the village, killing practically all of Nói's friends and relatives, including Íris, Davið and his grandmother. Only Nói survives in his protected hiding place, where he is initially trapped under the snow, but is then rescued by a search party. With the completely destroyed village, Nói loses everything; What he has left is his grandmother's birthday present: a view master with pictures of Hawaii, with whom he longingly gazes at the palm beach of the destination of his dreams in the ruins of his home.

Reviews

The film review was positive about the film:

“In his first feature film, Kári demonstrates an impressive ability to translate the rhythm and mood of an extraordinary life into images. The barren, hypnotic beauty of «Noi Albinoi» always has an overwhelming effect [...]. "

- Remo Bräuchi : Cineman.ch review

"Dagur Kári's award-winning debut film [develops] an ambivalence between stagnation and departure, between fascination and perplexity, which makes you ponder long after the credits have ended."

- Svenja Alsmann : Artechock.de review

“A multi-layered parable of otherness and the difficulties associated with it, changing confidently between comedy and tragedy, the grotesque and romance. The masterfully staged debut film does not provide quick explanations, plays with secrets and does not deny its closeness to biblical motifs. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

It is an unusual film that took Scandinavian audiences by storm and triumphed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Age rating for Nói Albínói . Youth Media Commission .