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This witty and mystical film follows a young Japanese executive who is forced to perform a traditional memorial ceremony in Iceland.
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Rating:  - Ice Kiss
Director, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, founded the ICELANDIC FILM CORPORATION in the early 80's, setting up alliances with others like Lars Von Trier's ZENTROPIA, and Francis Ford Coppola's AMERICAN ZEOTROPE. Fridriksson's film, CHILDREN OF NATURE (1991) was nominated for an Oscar as "Best Foreign Film". He is known for releasing films that are both deeply personal and that have narratives that are deeply rooted in Icelandic culture, full of stirring imagery, and sprinkled with his wry sense of humor. ... Read More
Rating:  - A journey to a place that's not on any map
It has been seven years since Atushi Hirata's parents died in an accident in Iceland. Hirata is now a successful young executive who has been instrumental in making a good profit for his company. He's ready to take a golfing holiday in Hawaii, but is compelled by obligation to perform the memorial rites for his dead parents by some river near Staadelfyr. Once he does so, according to his grandfather, their spirits can rest in peace. Hirata, like his late father, isn't exactly a spiritual person, ... Read More
Rating: - Very novel and entertaining
'One man's journey in a foreign land' is a cliche'd plot line but this storyline is more than a little different. Underlying the basic premise is the synthesis and comparison of two very similar cultures: Two modern island nations, with seperate but similar mythologies, strange native customs and both in love with American Culture.
A Japanese businesman passes up his vacation in Hawii so he can travel to Iceland in order to perform a ceremony for his dead parents. While in Iceland he learns ... Read More
Rating: - winter wonderland
I traveled to Iceland this past March, and watching Cold Fever made me positively nostolgic for its wintry landscape and sense of mysticism which this film so gorgeously captured. The landscape seemed to function as the main character in the film, unyielding and rich with stories and secrets. I particularly enjoyed the array of bizarro characters in Cold Fever - the funeral collector, the sock puppet wielding Americans, the Icelandic cowboys and caroling truckers - peppering the film's themes of alienation ... Read More
Rating: - SEARCHING FOR ONESELF
A young Japanese businessman must travel to Iceland, where his parents lived and then died, to perform a ritual for their burial. The film chronicles his confusing trek through Iceland where he gets drunk on a uniquely Icelandic alcohol and picks up hitchhikers (played by the excellent Fisher Stevens and Lili Taylor) who ultimately steal his car. An interesting and different concept which is good simply for its different approach.
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