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101 Reykjavík
Menemsha Entertainment


9.6

based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir

A young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just been to bed with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover, and may be carrying his child. (101 ltd.)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Hallgrimur Helgason (novel) Baltasar Kormákur
DIRECTED BY:	Baltasar Kormákur
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 15, 2003 Video: April 15, 2003 Theatrical: July 25, 2001
RUNNING TIME:	100 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Denmark / France / Iceland / Norway
LANGUAGE(S):	English and Icelandic (with English subtitles)

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...

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

For those under the impression that Icelandic life consists solely of fishing and the hosting of international summits, this triangle of love, lust, and misunderstanding from director Baltasar Kormakur is a welcome treat.

Variety Derek Elley

A funny, touching, off-the-wall relationer that's one of the freshest helming debuts in world cinema this year.

LA Weekly F. X. Feeney

First-time director Baltasar Kormakur -- balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Lola is played by veteran Spanish actress Victoria Abril, one of Pedro Almodovar's favorites, and though the character sounds familiar, Abril brings so much zest and enthusiasm to its creation that it feels original and makes the passion she inspires believable.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Accurately described as an Icelandic version of Pedro Almodovar's gender-bending black comedies -- but it's also reminiscent of early Woody Allen movies.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

A wonderful, cockeyed sex comedy.

New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson

While 101 Reykjavik has already been compared to "High Fidelity," with which it shares the notion of an emotionally immature male narrating a tale of his own failings, it's probably closer to something like "Spanking the Monkey," which took the Oedipal angle even further.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Feels as though it is not about much, but it is so well acted that the lassitude becomes a part of the atmosphere.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The tone of the film is in keeping with its most resounding image: Hilynur lying in the snow with a cigarette dangling from his mouth as the suicide note on his chest blows away in the wind as he wakes up.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Fun to watch it may be, but it's shallow fun. Like the drugs and booze the characters keep using -- and even the sex -- it's a passing pleasure.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Much of this is pretty funny, in its perverse, disorienting style, and there's an irrepressible sunniness to the relationship between Lola and Hlynur's mother.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Kormakur's debut feature fulfills the basic requirements of good slacker comedy: It's grounded in quotidian tedium and frustration, and it acknowledges both the humor and pathos of the relevant coping mechanisms (here, lackadaisical flings, porn addiction, amnesia-courting binges).

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Characters find themselves in absurdly complicated situations, but respond with sardonic cool rather than hot-blooded hysteria.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

But the main reason you might find the film a bad trip is that its 30-year-old Holden Caulfield-type hero is so harrowingly unsympathetic: unpleasant, unappealing, self-pitying.

The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alec P. gave it an8:
Appealing snapshots a bustling Reykjavik nightlife, set a weirdly warming tone, cast against such incomprehensible human relationships! Enjoyable in the same mundane way that Hlynur is content in his greying existance.

Óli gave it a 10:
Wonderful.

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
Great acting, perfect players, funny, Amazing film quality, great shots. LOVED every moment.

Max P. gave it a 10:
Anyone who has ever been even minutely interested in icelandic culture (or any culture for that matter) will adore this flic.

Leens H. gave it a 10:
So original and beautiful in its plot, characters and humour. This is such a wonderful, thought provoking film!

Tim R. gave it a 10:
One of my favorite foreign films ever made. Yes the characters in this movie actually can be found in real life.

Tryggvi J. gave it a 10:
A must see.

101 Reykjavík Menemsha Entertainment

101 Reykjavík
Menemsha Entertainment