Icarus Films and the
KimStim Collection will be joining forces on Dec. 4 for the domestic DVD debut
of Danish filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s chilling film festival favorite, Winter
Brothers.
Hlynur Pálmason’s Winter
Brothers (his debut feature-length film) was launched at the Locarno
Film Festival in August of 2017 and then began a parade of win after win as it
rolled along from one festival showcase to another. The international march of screenings was
accompanied by rave responses from both the audiences in attendance and the
film critics who caught the various screening.
Unless you were lucky
enough to attend one of these events — Chicago International Film Festival, AFI
Fest, San Francisco International Film Festival , etc. — your first chance to
find out what all the buzz is about will likely be on Dec. 4 when it becomes
available on DVD. Take note of that
date.
Hlynur Pálmason, born in
Iceland, but now living in Copenhagen, is an artist by trade who has taken to
the medium of film with the view of an artist.
That becomes clear from the get-go as the location for Winter
Brothers is nothing short of foreboding, chilling … a remote limestone
mine in some forgotten corner of Denmark.
Filmed in color, but you can imagine the isolation of Bergman’s The
Seventh Seal or Shame as the touchstone for such a
place.
It is here, in this
dusty, noisy and bone-chilling locale that we are introduced to Emil (Elliott
Crosset Hove), a miner who seems to be better suited for loafing about, brewing
hooch or living out his visions of fancy.
He clearly doesn’t fit.
We also meet his brother,
Johan (Simon Sears), who is every bit the image of a miner, and Emil’s only
real friend, but that will that be tested.
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To say that Emil is not
quite right is an understatement and as the film progresses we get an uneasy
feeling about him … think: fingernails being drawn across a chalkboard. Indeed,
Elliott Crosset Hove’s performance as Emil is nothing short of riveting — creepy
riveting — and like a bloody auto wreck along a busy thoroughfare, we must slow
down to take a look.
Winter Brothers is presented in Danish with English subtitles.
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