h.pálmason
vinterbrødre / process 1#
There's not even one single frame wasted in the directorial debut of Hlynur Pálmason. Even if it is surprising to find in a first feature film such a visual awareness marked out with powerful stylish intuition, it's less unusual to think that Vinterbrødre is one part of a path which crosses photography, painting, land art and installations; moreover, it is constantly feeding upon the strength of natural elements. The whiteness in the movie is not only represented by the snow which covers a natural and devastated landscape and that total blackness is not only portrayed by the deafening darkness of a mountain. Indeed, Pálmason also uses minerals and chemicals almost as if they were characters in one of his pieces of art, he scatters shapes and traces, and places iconic objects and gestures. More extreme colours are added to the prominent white and black and some scenes would deserve an expressive out of focus that is no longer permitted by digital. This is how the world looks like for Emil, who behind the enigmatic and incredible look of Elliott Crosset Hove, knows only sudden extreme and opposite impulses. His world is in a new cold war, enemies are everywhere and it's not by chance that their boss is Lars Mikkelsen, the ineffable Russian President Viktor Petrov of House of Cards. There is no peace, we have to get the gun and prepare to fight.
review 4# / vinterbrødre
"a confidently handled, promisingly edgy feature debut" Hollywood Reporter
summer process 4#
official selection / Haugesund Film Festival
screenings here:
vinterbrødre wins 4 awards at locarno
VINTERBRØDRE wins four awards at Locarno Film Festival. Best actor in the main competition, Junior Jury Prize - 1'st place, critics special mention and European Cinama awards (distribution award), more here.
vinterbrødre wins FIPRESCI special mention
vinterbrødre / review 2#
"exhilarating work" ***** The Up Coming
summer process 3#
vinterbrødre / review 1#
"a strange, exceptionally crafted 'lack-of-love' story" variety
a white, white day / process 2#
summer process 2#
summer process 1#
new horizons international competition
WINTER BROTHERS has been selected for the New Horizons International Competition in Wraclow, Polland. More here.
Draw a breath of frosty air, inhale the snow, and give yourself over to the strangest winter journey you have ever experienced at the movies. Surrealistic, absurd, with stains of black humor on white snow, this film by Hlynur Pálmason takes us to a workers' village in the middle of the forest. Two brothers live here, as you might expect in a fairytale, the younger of which makes moonshine, desperately longs for love and keeps repeating that everyone has a dark side. Here, the metaphor for that dark side is a mine, where headlamps barely break through the darkness while tension slowly simmers between the laboring men. Visual, surprising and with intensively powerful images, Winter Brothers is about what is hidden deep within: rivalry, aggression, and desire for revenge, all of which hurt and destroy when released from the deep shafts of the human soul. But it's also about everything that can push back that darkness.
Małgorzata Sadowska
winter brothers / still from the film.
world premiere at Locarno
WINTER BROTHERS will have it's world premiere at Locarno Film Festival. It will open and compete in the main competition; Concorso Internacionale. More here.
winter brothers / photo: h.pálmason 2016
graðaloftið / ferli 2#
graðaloftið / ferli 1#
exterior 2# / faroe islands
ext. exhibition 1# / faroe islands
spring process 2#
