ETHER WAY IN CINEUROPE

2011-12-06

ETHER WAY IN CINEUROPE

Two men, a road in the middle of nowhere, long chats about women and pop music. The winner of the 29th Turin Film Festival, which ended last Saturday, EitherWay, first work of Iceland’s Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, might, on paper, have seemed rather unattractive - in the Iceland of the 1980s (a period during which, according to the director,"fashion and music have something of the naïve and the comical at the same time"), two road-maintenance workers spend their summer working on an isolated barren land North of the country, and practically nothing happens.

 

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