Source: http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=403102
Due to a stallion acting like a stallion in the official trailer below, this clip is not recommended for children. So parents, please preview!
Alana Odegard of Icelandic Review On-Line reviewed the film. Highlights from her review include:
"...the movie was about what has always been close to Icelanders: horses and nature. However, Hross í oss is no ordinary horse and nature film, but rather a keyhole peep into Iceland’s past...
Hross í oss masterfully weaves together parables; negative passion, such as breach of peace, drunkenness or vengefulness are punished, the positive passion finds reward. The film also describes the experiences of two foreigners, deeply touching as acts of initiation, although they could hardly be more different from each other..
Horses are everywhere in this movie. Strong and fast, life-giving, overwhelmingly wild and yet tender, and always at people’s side, up to the last breath. In the static nature shots horses are the moving elements. They move people. They move the soul. At the same time they are the stationary element, as if to indicate, “why are you going mad?” They represent beauty, power, and eternity in this loving story that does not condemn ugliness and weakness. "
Alana Odegard notes that although both actors and horses face danger in the film no horses were harmed during the filming due to the training of great work of the eight men led by Benedikt Líndal.
You can read the entire review at:
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/reviews/film/
I look forward to seeing how "Of Horses and Men" fares at the Academies this year.
1 comment:
There is also a human behaving like a stallion in that clip. ;-) Ah... amor!
If you learn where can get video (with English sub-titles), then please post to your blog to let us know.
Meg
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