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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 24 m
L'iceberg

Summary Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy… until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was...

Directed By: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

Written By: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 24 m

L'iceberg

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
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Summary Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy… until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was...

Directed By: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

Written By: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
70% Positive
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
30% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
70% Positive
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
30% Negative
3 Reviews

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88
Three Belgian clowns wrote and directed this sly, winsome tale of one woman's quest for her destiny in the polar seas after an absurd but life-altering accident reveals the emptiness of her mundane, middle-class life.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
The Iceberg is a riot, a quintessential French comedy with an improbable plot and an unbelievable cast of characters.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
75
Gordon and Abel (who delivers one of the longest yawns in screen history) are howls as husband and wife. Their long, lean buddies seem custom-made for slapstick humor. Keaton would approve.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Not every sight gag works, and there's a brief stretch in the middle where the action becomes landlocked. But once we're out to sea the movie goes swimmingly--its three protagonists fighting, flailing, and often on the verge of drowning as their tiny skiff surges toward the land of the Inuit.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
70
Its simultaneously silly and grave tone finds humor in the characters' delusions and obsessions while celebrating their uniqueness.
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30
A brave but doomed attempt to revive the art of pure physical comedy, the willfully eccentric, practically dialogue-free, Iceberg sets itself a high standard with an opening 15 minutes of the most delicious slapstick, but thereafter only a few moments of gentle surrealism and the occasional poetic image justify the ride, with only 10% of the pic's potential laughs evident above the surface.
By Jonathan Holland FULL REVIEW
10
This one deserves to go back in the refrigerator – preferably to the very back of the refrigerator!
By Phil Hall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Courage Mon Amour, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Release Date May 4, 2007
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.mk2.com/cinedecouverte/site.html
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Awards

Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
• 2 Nominations
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Bogota Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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