Tag: Winter Brothers

  • Cannes: Critics Week Unveils Lineup

    Cannes: Critics Week Unveils Lineup

    Lorcan Finnegan’s science-fiction thriller “Vivarium” with Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Jérémy Clapin’s fantasy-filled animated feature “I Lost My Body” and Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic drama “A White, White Day” are among the 11 films set to compete at Critics’s Week, the section dedicated to first and second films which runs parallel to Cannes Film Festival.“Vivarium,”…

  • Surreal ‘Winter Brothers’ is a Memorable Arthouse Take on the Scandinavian North [Nd/Nf Review]

    At one point in Hlynur Pálmason’s “Winter Brothers,” protagonist Emil (Elliott Crosset Hove) performs a magic trick by mixing a few clear chemicals in a soda bottle in the hopes of impressing a young woman (Victoria Carmen Sonne). Like her, we can see all the components (which are literally transparent) and yet the result still…

  • ‘Winter Brothers’ triumphs at Vilnius Film Festival

    ‘Winter Brothers’ triumphs at Vilnius Film Festival

    Psychological drama takes the Grand Prix plus best actor for Elliott Crosset Hove.Hlynur Pálmason’s psychological drama Winter Brothers won the Grand Prix at the 23rd Vilnius Film Festival ’Kino Pavasaris’.The international jury for the newly created European Debut Competition declared the film “heralds a new voice in arthouse cinema”.The Danish-Icelandic co-production, which premiered at Locarno…