Selected Icelandic Media Adaptations Available to Stream via Kanopy
The Swan (dir. Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, 2017)
In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year old girl, Sól, is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. Nature seems endless there, the animals soulful but the people harsh. All except the mysterious farmhand Jón, who — as Sól herself — likes words better than people.
But the farmers’ daughter Ásta has a claim on Jón as well, and soon Sól becomes entangled in a drama she hardly can grasp. This summer marks Sól’s rite of passage into the murky waters of adulthood, and the wild nature in us all...
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Icelandic Media Adaptations Available in UC Library Search
- 101 Reykjavík (dir. Baltasar Kormákur, 2003)Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve (IMDB).
- Angels of the Universe (dir. Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, 2000)Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can't cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur (IMDB).
- Jar City (dir. Baltasar Kormákur, 2009)A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad (IMDB).
- The Swan (dir. Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, 2017)
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In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year old girl, Sól, is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. Nature seems endless there, the animals soulful but the people harsh. All except the mysterious farmhand Jón, who—as Sól herself—likes words better than people. But the farmers’ daughter Ásta has a claim on Jón as well, and soon Sól becomes entangled in a drama she hardly can grasp. This summer marks Sól’s rite of passage into the murky waters of adulthood, and the wild nature in us all (Kanopy).
