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Noi Albinoi

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 8 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by: Dagur Kári
Directed by: Dagur Kári
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 17, 2004
DVD: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: Iceland / Germany / UK / Denmark
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Tómas Lemarquis, Throstur Leo Gunnarsson, Elin Hansdóttir, Anna Fridriksdóttir, Pétur Einarsson, Sveinn Geirsson, Gérard Lemarquis, Guðmundur Ólafsson, and Hjalti Rögnvaldsson
An intelligent 17-year-old boy dreams of escaping from his hometown in the remote fjord regions of Northern Iceland.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Reader Gerald Peary
Kari combines Kaurismaki's deadpan minimalism and Truffaut's sensitivity toward adolescent yearning with a hefty dose of gallows humor, and tops it all off with an apocalyptic ending.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rich Cline
Performances are spot-on from the entire cast; each memorable character is finely detailed and full of eccentricities that are beautifully underplayed.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Given the white-on-white color scheme, I didn't expect so many shades of feeling.
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
An impeccably made bleak comedy with an exactly calibrated, almost musical sense of timing, Nói is singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Lemarquis, as Noi, has a stoic and silent tenderness to him, and Hansdottir's Iris is the picture of pensive sluggishness. But then all that cold, cold snow slows you down, both inside and out, until the only thing moving is your heart.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
Like a young director with serious aims, there is an earnest tone here that makes Noi Albinoi a success.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Kari's film, witty and sad, is a spare, small thing, but Noi has a poetry about it, and a poignancy.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The film's comic observations are rich, droll, and more than a little sad: Everyone in this isolated community seems beaten down by life.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Quirky, heartfelt acting makes this a superior entry in the perennial teenage-misfit genre.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kári's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Only in the final minutes, when Kári overreaches for ironic effect, does the film plumb too far into the darkness.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
After a while the movie spins its wheels, unable to find much emotional traction in the icy bleakness.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Mark Jenkins
Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
M. Daye gave it a10:
At once saddening and amusing, Nói Albinói is a stunning study into life on the outside.
Garrett R. gave it a9:
An exceptionally unque story about adolescence into a maturing adult that is both unexpected and strangely remarkable however dark or bleek. It's a real foreign treat and the best movie to come out of Iceland, well, ever!
Sam gave it a9:
Funny, different, great.
Kass K gave it a 2:
Rather dull and pointless, even for an art film. some funny parts, and its not terribly long, but it leaves you asking why this kid's story deserved being told.
