Alexander Welch is an American college student that has been granted a six-month permit to study biology in Iceland. He is assigned to a Reykjavík-based research team that is investigating vitamin deficiency in local sheep. While carrying out his task, which among other things includes the collection of blood samples from various farms around Iceland […]
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Bad Family explores issues and deviations of what’s supposed to be the average upper Finnish bourgeoisie. Mikael Lindgren (Ville Virtanen), a Public Prosecutor, is a well-off and apparently accomplished man. He has two sons: the older one, Dani, comes from a previous failed marriage. Dani is still a young man in high school, but Mikael […]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost and Jim Jarmusch took the same path. Both poet and filmmaker took each in his own field the path less traveled by. As Frost affirms in his The Road Not Taken, […]
Lucas is a homeless living in the streets with only a bony stray kitten as a companion; Jacques is the owner of The House of Oysters, a bar he runs alone with his dog Rococo. Apart from their pet friends, Lucas and Jacques don’t seem to have much in common at first sight: Lucas is […]
