Winter Brothers
Impressively original, auspiciously idiosyncratic debut.
Winter Brothers
Hlynur Pálmason’s feature debut examines the lives of Johan and his younger brother Emil, two miners whose routines, habits, and rituals are ruptured by a violent feud with a neighboring family. Winner of four awards at the Locarno Film Festival including Best Actor Elliott Crosset Hove (Emil).
"Winter Brothers is one of the more aesthetically idiosyncratic directorial debuts in recent memory." —Slant Magazine
"Pálmason seemingly reproduces in his work a process of electing a new place and making it his own, after stripping it from too recognizable attributes. And indeed, an acute sense of space and texture (ice, chalk, wood) helps involve us in the ritualistic life that so maddens Emil." - Aurélie Godet , Cinema Scope
"[Winter Brothers] already confirmed Pálmason and company as names to watch." - Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter
"It is a delicate, edgy work of art with a strong heart, which is just what an emerging filmmaker needs." - Vassilis Economou, Cineuropa
"Elements of craft and performance are very persuasive." - Allan Hunter, Screendaily
"Winter Brothers is one of the more aesthetically idiosyncratic directorial debuts in recent memory." —Slant Magazine
"Pálmason seemingly reproduces in his work a process of electing a new place and making it his own, after stripping it from too recognizable attributes. And indeed, an acute sense of space and texture (ice, chalk, wood) helps involve us in the ritualistic life that so maddens Emil." - Aurélie Godet , Cinema Scope
"[Winter Brothers] already confirmed Pálmason and company as names to watch." - Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter
"It is a delicate, edgy work of art with a strong heart, which is just what an emerging filmmaker needs." - Vassilis Economou, Cineuropa
"Elements of craft and performance are very persuasive." - Allan Hunter, Screendaily
Genre
Drama
Runtime
100
Language
Danish,
English
Director
Hlynur Pálmason
Writer(s)
Hlynur Pálmason
Cast
Elliott Crosset Hove,
Simon Sears
FEATURED REVIEW
Danny King, Village Voice
Much of the tension of 'Winter Brothers' emerges from this clash of man and milieu: a wiry troublemaker imprinting havoc on a landscape of roiling machinery and perpetual snow. Emil’s isolation grows more intense after a batch of his hooch reportedly leaves a higher-up fatally ill. During a morbidly ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 7.20.18 - 7.26.18
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