Devil's Island
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 5, 2000
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Fox Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Baltasar Kormákur | |
Performer: | Gisli Halldorsson | |
Directed by | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | |
Edited by | Steingrimur Karlsson | |
Cinematography by | Ari Kristinsson | |
Produced by | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson |
Entertainment Reviews:
64%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 47
Rating: 2/4 --
Ambitious but uneven.
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Christian Science Monitor
...Gorgeously shot, this naturalistic fable of a family frozen in dysfunction ends with a quiet miracle...
Chicago Sun-Times
...Rambunctious energy....Magnus Olafsson is very funny...
Sight and Sound
A wry black comedy that pokes fun at the destructive impact of Americanization upon one Icelandic family.
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Spirituality and Practice
...Fridriksson graces the cinema of poverty rooted in Italian neo-realism and the British kitchen-sink style with a delightfully weird twist...
Chicago Sun-Times
...[A] vividly realized, comic and pungent slice of life....It is created with admirable skill...
New York Times
Product Description:
A dramatic black comedy about the lower-class citizens of Reykjavik, Iceland who made their homes in the abandoned bunkers of British and American soldiers after World War II. A bittersweet examination of one family's trails and tribulations in the attempts to make the best of those difficult times on "Devils Island." Filmed on location in Iceland and based on a true story and the novel by Einar Gudmundsson.