Three Icelandic films to be screened at the Rome Film Fest 2007
The Rome Film Fest will take place for the second consecutive time from the 18th to the 27th of October. It will dedicate a special day, the 23rd of October, to Icelandic films, screening three of them in one day. First off will the Ragnar Bragason's "Children", followed by Dean DeBlois' "Home" about the band Sigurrós, and concluding with another movie by Bragason named "Parents". They will be screened at the Teatro Studio, Auditorium Parco Della Musica. Click below for more information on each movie.
Tickets can be purchased online, www.romacinemafest.org, www.listicket.it, and in the ticket office of Auditorium Parco della Musica for the duration of the Film Fest. An additional ticket office will be open outside the Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma in viale Pietro De Coubertin.
Heima (Home)
By Dean DeBlois, Iceland 2007, (97 minutes)
It’s as if one of the most sophisticated and acclaimed bands in the whole world were followed around during a tour on a distant planet. In reality, the band is the Sigur Ròs, and the place is their native land, Iceland, which looks like anything but the planet Earth: the tour has been filmed in the most spectacular of settings. A magical mystery tour of sorts, in a parallel universe that moves to the beat of the dialectic between nature in all its sublimity and the hieratic, ancesctral sounds of the Sigur Ròs. The result is a hypnotic film, a pagan rite where music is the most wonder-working of instruments that enables mankind to communicate with nature.
Screenings:
October 23rd at 8.30pm
October 24th at 2.30pm
Börn (Children)
By Ragnar Bragason, Iceland 2006, (93 minutes)
Twelve-year-old Guðmundur is continually being bullied; his only friend is a schizophrenic in his forties. His mother is desperately trying to keep custody of Gudmund and her other three children. Garðar, the boy’s father, who lives by crime and violence, decides to start a new life and search for the son he has never known. The meeting will be dramatic, ridiculous and moving all at the same time. Children is the first of two films by Ragnar Bragason, the Icelandic director whose work is the subject of a focus in the Extra section. The second film, Parents, from 2007, is a sort of sequel, as we see the reappearance of some of the original characters.
Screenings:
October 23rd at 5 pm
Foreldrar (Parents)
By Ragnar Bragason, Iceland 2007, (88 minutes)
Óskar has adopted a little boy. He would like a child of his own though discovers his wife cannot have children. Einar lives in a hotel hoping his wife realises she has made a terrible mistake by throwing him out. Katrín returns to Iceland after 8 years and would like to go back to live with her son who has been raised by his grandmother: she finds work as a dentist’s assistant and it is in this surgery she will have to come to terms with her past. While being a stand-alone film, Parents is also the second part of Bragason’s feature Children, looking at the relationship between parents and children. It shares various characters seen in the first picture, forming a singular and illuminating diptych on a society in a far off and isolated country.
Screenings:
October 23rd at 11 pm
