Winter Brothers (2017)
★★ — Winter Brothers (2017)
Winter Brothers was the debut feature from Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, who would go on to make A White, White Day (2019) and Godland (2022), establishing himself as one of the more distinctive voices to emerge from Nordic cinema in recent years. Shot on location in what appears to be a working industrial environment, the film leans heavily into a documentary-adjacent visual style, all grain and low light, that was clearly a deliberate aesthetic choice rather than a budget limitation. Produced with support from New Danish Screen, a fund specifically designed to back unconventional and risk-taking work, it screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017, the kind of circuit where formally austere, dialogue-light films find their most receptive audience.
A-Z World Movie Tour Iceland For the first 10 minutes or so I didn't have a clue what was going on because it was too dark. It was basically some people that appeared to be down a mine. Barely a word was spoken. The scenery and settings were quite interesting but the picture quality was really quite poor. Basically every scene in the mines was near unwatchable. The basic premise of the story is 2 brothers live together in what looks to be rural iceland. They work in a mine in a dead end manual job and don't seem particularly happy. One brother makes moonshine using chemicals he steals from work. One of his colleagues gets unwell as a result. There are alot of penis scenes for some reason and the ending is so abrupt it makes no sense at all. Overall a really disappointing movie.
Rating: ★★ | Year: 2017 | Watched: 2025-06-29
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