Sparrows

Sparrows

2015 · 99 min · IS · 6.4 (40 votes)
Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson · Starring Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Rakel Björk Björnsdóttir, Rade Šerbedžija, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Kristbjörg Kjeld · Music Kjartan Sveinsson
Drama

The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.

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A quiet, contemplative journey through adolescence and disillusionment. It captures the specific ache of returning home and confronting the ghosts of the past, all set against a starkly beautiful, windswept landscape.

melancholicintrospectivewistfulsomberslow-burnarthousenaturalisticcharacter-drivenindie dramacoming-of-agefamilydisillusionmentidentity
small townadolescenceicelandcoming of ageteenage boy
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