Metalhead
A stellar tale of growing up grim...the film deftly marries the essence of the music to a moving coming-of-age framework...so special.
Metalhead
Fueled by a remarkable breakout performance by actress Thora Bjorg Helga, director Ragnar Bragason’s intense drama of loss, faith, redemption, Megadeth and Judas Priest begins with a farming accident in the 1980’s that sends a young girl, Hera, and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the death of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother. A decade later and Hera is transformed into a sexy, surly headbanger and DIY musician, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother’s electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. Seemingly trapped in a haunted landscape of slaughterhouses and barren winter fields, making all the wrong choices in her life – including coming on to the local priest and sleeping with her platonic best friend – Hera slowly, painfully comes to terms with her family’s loss and the sound of her own true voice.
Partly inspired by the Norwegian black metal church burnings in the early 1990’s, METALHEAD features a soundtrack of 1980’s and 1990’s head-banging classics by Riot, Teaze, Savatage, Lizzy Borden and Megadeth. Winner of eight awards at the 2014 Icelandic Film Awards including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Original Score.
Rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Partly inspired by the Norwegian black metal church burnings in the early 1990’s, METALHEAD features a soundtrack of 1980’s and 1990’s head-banging classics by Riot, Teaze, Savatage, Lizzy Borden and Megadeth. Winner of eight awards at the 2014 Icelandic Film Awards including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Original Score.
Rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Genre
Drama
Runtime
97
Language
Icelandic
Director
Ragnar Bragason
Cast
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson,
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
FEATURED REVIEW
Andy Webster, New York Times
Ragnar Bragason’s “Metalhead” — about a disaffected teenage girl on an isolated farm who finds salvation in heavy-metal music — could have been set in a Great Plains town or in any American agricultural hamlet. But it takes place near Svarthamar, an empty, rural corner of Iceland, where much social ...
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NoHo 7 3.27.15 - 4.02.15
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