101 Reykjavik Movie Review 2000

Icelandic comedy about a slacker and his mom. The slacker is the pushing 30 Hlynur (Gudnason) who lives with indulgent mom Berglind (Karlsdottir). He's cynical, jobless and unambitious (though not unintelligent). Then Berglind invites her Spanish friend Lola (Abril), who's teaching flamenco at the local dance school, to stay. Hylnur falls for the hottie bigtime and they have a drunken New Year's Eve fling while Berglind is away--and before she manages to tell her son that Lola is her own lover. And then Lola finds out she's pregnant. Oh, the complications! Icelandic and English dialogue.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from Icelandic, Danish, French, Norwegian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Pregnant Pauses, Lesbians, Moms

Screenplay

Baltasar Kormakur

Cast

Hilmir Snaer Guonason, Victoria Abril, Baltasar Kormakur, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Pruour Vilhjalmsdottir

Cinematography

Peter Stueger

Director

Baltasar Kormakur

Music

Damon Albarn, Einar Orn Benediktsson

Other

Kjartan Kjartansson, Skule Eriksen, Sijvaldi J. Karason

Producer

Baltasar Kormakur, Ingvar Thordarson, Zentropa Entertainment, Icelandic Film Corp., Liberator Productions, Filmhuset