A Haunting Enigma of Violence and Chaos
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
The picture of Iceland that emerges in Baltasar Kormákur’s “Jar City” is vivid and powerful but not something the country’s tourist board would be likely to endorse. The landscape has its austere poetry to be sure — mountains framing the apartment blocks of Reykjavik, spits of volcanic rock jutting into a churning sea — but a fog of damp unhappiness seems to pervade every face and conversation.
And yet by the end of this film, based on a popular mystery novel by Arnaldur Indridason, it is hard not to feel a certain affection for the place. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3316 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 Febbraio 2008
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