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75Paced 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.
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75Quirky, heartfelt acting makes this a superior entry in the perennial teenage-misfit genre.
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63The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kári's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching.
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75The film's comic observations are rich, droll, and more than a little sad: Everyone in this isolated community seems beaten down by life.
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80An 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.
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80Given the white-on-white color scheme, I didn't expect so many shades of feeling.
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78Lemarquis, 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.
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75Kari's film, witty and sad, is a spare, small thing, but Noi has a poetry about it, and a poignancy.
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60Only in the final minutes, when Kári overreaches for ironic effect, does the film plumb too far into the darkness.
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75Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki.
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50After a while the movie spins its wheels, unable to find much emotional traction in the icy bleakness.
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70A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker.
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70A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
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60Nói makes a stab at tragic romance.
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70An inspired mix of realism, humor and metaphor.
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80Performances are spot-on from the entire cast; each memorable character is finely detailed and full of eccentricities that are beautifully underplayed.
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Like a young director with serious aims, there is an earnest tone here that makes Noi Albinoi a success.
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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.
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Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
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M.Daye10At once saddening and amusing, Nói Albinói is a stunning study into life on the outside.
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