The Sea

Name: The Sea
Genre: Drama
Released: May 16, 2003
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Hélène de Fougerolles, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

2003

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Palm Pictures | Release Date: May 16, 2003

Starring: Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Hélène de Fougerolles, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Summary: A family drama set in a remote fishing village in Iceland.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 109 min

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Michael Wilmington

The Sea isn't just brooding Scandinavian domestic tragedy, a lesser Bergman-Ibsen pastiche. It's also hilarious and rowdy, and it plays with our sympathies and expectations in such surprising ways, with such brilliant actors, it's easy to see why it won the equivalent of eight Icelandic Oscars. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

The loveliest moments put both politics and theatrics aside, conveying the strange beauty of a hard life involving little else than fish, water, and gray sky. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

For the most part the eruption of repressed anger is blindly destructive. There's little healing to be found in the bitter melodrama, but there is a small sense of triumph as the children face up and move on. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Overcrowded and overwritten, with too many shrill denunciations and dramatic surprises; we don't like the characters and, worse, they don't interest us. Read full review

Ty Burr

You may have to be from Iceland to take dialogue like ''You can't freeze love like a gutted fish'' with a straight face. Read full review

Fred Camper

The camera goes limp during the climactic emotional blowout--unimaginative and static compositions leave the characters yelling at each other in a vacuum. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

The acidic Shakespearean family drama The Sea can't be faulted for lack of ambition. It can, however, be faulted for a fatal lack of heart. Read full review

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