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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0660200308421
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 32064
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Description:
Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? Seventeen-year-old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Nói’s universe and offer him a better world.
Amazon.com:
Hairless, gaunt, and pallid, the title character of Noi is an Icelandic slacker, a smart but alienated high school boy with a boozing dad and meager prospects. His small-town life brightens a bit when he meets Iris, the daughter of a local bookstore owner, who's vacationing from the city. For their first date, they break into a museum and kiss in front of a taxidermed polar bear. But Noi's life continues its downward turn; he's expelled from school and gets a job as a gravedigger, prompting a desperate gesture. Noi is sort of a collision between Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Scandinavian nihilism (the bookstore owner quotes the dour philosopher Kierkegaard). Fortunately, the bleak events are carried out with skewed humor and sly visual flair. The restlessness and despair of adolescence are captured with honesty and sympathy. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Ironic
I really enjoyed this film. The irony of him daydreaming about leaving one island for another isolated island really cracked me up. You really connect with the people in the film and it sticks with a theme I'm noticing in a handful of icelandic films I've watched recently of having an unexpected ending... Seagull's Laughter and the Juniper Tree are similar in that way.
Rating:  - Very Interesting Movie
Noi is definitely one of the most original movies I've seen, even if it's not completely to my taste. It's about the eponymous title character, a troubled youth looking for a way to make sense of his life. Noi lives with his grandmother and alcoholic father. He rarely goes to school, and consistently does poorly on his assignments. Nothing seems to go right for our anti-hero, as he has a bad relationship with his father, and is eventually expelled from school. His only window of hope is the new girl ... Read More
Rating: - Icelandic Hit!!
I saw this movie before visting iceland and it was great. when i came home from iceland i got on amazon and got this movie. although iceland isnt as nearly dark and dreary this movie really touches on growing up different, broken dreams, fate and it ends with a twist. definately worth checking out. best icelandic movie i have seen yet!
Rating:  - Interesting, but too much in love with its own quirkiness
This film from Iceland is about a 17-year old Albino called Noi (played by an actor who doesn't look either like an albino or a 17 year old) living on an oppresively dull small town in an isolated fjord. Noi, meanwhile, has problems in school, has problems with his parents, hangs out in a bookstore (the town's only, presumably) owned by a cranky old man and is in love with the beautiful waitress of the bar in the gas station. The movie itself is sort of interesting, has droll humor to spare, but at the ... Read More
Rating: - Exploring Remote Behavior in One of the Remotest Parts of the World
Noi is a seventeen year old teenager who lives with his grandmother. He is rebellious on a personal level regarding school and his personal habits, he smokes and drinks. He is not exactly disrespectful but simply is an individual who follows his own inclinations which has a tendency to get him into trouble. The fjord in Iceland where he lives is limited ... His father is an alcoholic and there is no background given regarding his mother. The film contrasts the stark cold climate in which he lives with the ... Read More
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