Description
A little like Pl Sletaune’s 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavk gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist’s sheer social and emotional ineptitude–though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We’ve been here before, of course–as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood–but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormkur’s film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether–in view of remarks like “Reykjavk is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,”–it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter!
