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101 Reykjavík
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780794203344
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0794203345
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: English (Original Language), Icelandic (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: April 15, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Sexy Spaniard Victoria Abril heats up the wintry city of Reykjavík in 101 Reykjavík. Icelandic slacker Hlynur (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) lives on welfare with his mother, leading a depressed and aimless existence. His mother invites her flamenco teacher, Lola (Abril), to live with them; while his mother is away for New Year's Eve, Hlynur and Lola have a drunken fling. But upon her return, Hlynur's mother tells him that she and Lola are lesbian lovers--and it soon comes out that she and Lola are going to have a baby together. 101 Reykjavík seems to be the contemporary Icelandic version of American movies of the 1970s like Five Easy Pieces, in which antiheroic characters struggle to make sense of a world that doesn't seem to have any place for them. The movie is a bit unfocused, but its urban malaise feels genuine, if not particularly new. Abril is delightful, as always. --Bret Fetzer
A young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just been to bed with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against the backdrop of Reykjavik `s swinging nightlife, this zany black comedy takes a candid look at its anti-hero's compelling, confused and often hilarious sexual universe. Living on social security in the protected enviornment of his mother's home, Hlynur has never felt the urge to venture beyond the confines of his microscopic world: 101 Reykjavik. Determined to resist adulthood at all cost, he finds out that life is busy making other plans for him.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Fun when looking for something a little different
As the title says, this is a great movie when your in the mood for something a little different from the norm. The characters are great and easy to relate to on a 'day to day' basis. Some of the issues presented are not for everyone, but it should not deter you from watching it.
Rating:  - nothing i missed in iceland
i recently visted iceland and heard this movie was worth checking out from some locals. well, i purchased the movie on here, on amazon.. save your money if you are thinking of buying it. it was rushed and predictable.
Rating:  - A little predictable and rushed
This movie started off really captivating, but by the middle of it I found myself no longer on the protagonist's side. I also noticed that this movie culminated in pretty formulaically, typical of a lot of other Scandinavian films I've seen. The end wasn't rewarding, and the basic plot ups and downs were similar to films like the Norwegian Elling - it was the same type of style, or so it appeared to me, in any case. The soundtrack also became pretty annoying, with more than half the songs being ... Read More
Rating: - Icelandic Slacker Movie
2000 Icelandic not-rated movie. Also known as "101 ehf. kynnir" Caution: full nudity (including male, and female (and brief nudity of and older woman)), and drug use. Something of a strange love-triangle movie.
DVD Features: Contains the film (oddly, the DVD does not specific what language the film is in, though it offers English subtitles), and special features. There are three special features: 1: filmographies; 2: "Trailers from the Wellspring Libraries" (7 trailers, "Irma Vep," ... Read More
Rating: - Modern life
A fantastically concocted farce. A fifties-clad sexually attractive, aimless, partying nerd with horn rimmed glasses and no hindsight is manhandled by his lesbian mother and her hot blooded lover. They teach him to accept his place as father/brother at the bottom of the totem pole in the family.
For viewers/readers not familiar with Icelandic movies, many are made but few appear outside Scandinavia. Iceland has the highest litracy and readership rate in the world, and the highest rate ... Read More
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