Of Horses and Men

Of Horses and Men

Film poster
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Produced by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Written by Benedikt Erlingsson
Starring Helgi Björnsson
Release dates
  • 28 August 2013
Running time
 90 minutes
Country Iceland
Language Icelandic

Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross í oss) is a 2013 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[1][2] but it was not nominated. The film won the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize.

Cast

Reception

Robbie Collin described Of Horses and Men as a "collection of six-or-so interlocking fables about a group of rural Icelanders’ relationships with their horses and each other, and which run the gamut from stony-black comedies of sex and death to chilly meditations on the blind cruelty of fate." He gave it four stars out of five and called it "something truly and seductively strange" and "tenderly attuned to the weather and landscape, both of which are captured in you-could-almost-be-there vividness, and underscored by a heady swirl of choral works and primal drumming."[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Oscars: Iceland Nominates 'Of Horses and Men' for Foreign Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  2. ↑ "Of Horses and Men selected for the 2014 Oscars". News of Iceland. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  3. ↑ Collin, Robbie (29 October 2013). "Of Horses and Men, Tokyo International Film Festival, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-02-12.

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