Noi

Starring:TÃ³mas Lemarquis, ÃžrÃ¶stur LeÃ³ Gunnarsson, ElÃn HansdÃ³ttir, Anna FriÃ°riksdÃ³ttir, Hjalti RÃ¶gnvaldsson, PÃ©tur Einarsson, Kjartan Bjargmundsson, Ãžorsteinn Gunnarsson, GuÃ°mundur Ã“lafsson, Haraldur JÃ³nsson, GÃ©rard Lemarquis, Greipur Gislason, PÃ¡ll Loftsson, ÃsdÃs Thoroddsen, Ãsmundur Ãsmudsson, Ã“ttarr ProppÃ©, Gunnhildur BjÃ¶rk ElÃasdÃ³ttir, Unnar Reynisson, Sveinn Geirsson, Ãžorgeir GuÃ°mundsson
Director: Dagur KÃ¡ri
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Product Type: DVD

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Hairless, gaunt, and pallid, the title character of Noi is an Icelandic slacker, a smart but alienated high school boy with a boozing dad and meager prospects. His small-town life brightens a bit when he meets Iris, the daughter of a local bookstore owner, who's vacationing from the city. For their first date, they break into a museum and kiss in front of a taxidermed polar bear. But Noi's life continues its downward turn; he's expelled from school and gets a job as a gravedigger, prompting a desperate gesture. Noi is sort of a collision between Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Scandinavian nihilism (the bookstore owner quotes the dour philosopher Kierkegaard). Fortunately, the bleak events are carried out with skewed humor and sly visual flair. The restlessness and despair of adolescence are captured with honesty and sympathy. --Bret Fetzer

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Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? Seventeen-year-old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Nói's universe and offer him a better world.

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Interesting, but too much in love with its own quirkiness.......2007-04-14

This film from Iceland is about a 17-year old Albino called Noi (played by an actor who doesn't look either like an albino or a 17 year old) living on an oppresively dull small town in an isolated fjord. Noi, meanwhile, has problems in school, has problems with his parents, hangs out in a bookstore (the town's only, presumably) owned by a cranky old man and is in love with the beautiful waitress of the bar in the gas station. The movie itself is sort of interesting, has droll humor to spare, but at the end, seems to be too much in love with its own quirkiness. And, what should we make of the fact that (SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN THE MOVIE AND PLAN TO WATCH IT) most of the people Noi cares for die at the end as a result of an avalanche.

"Your lack of discipline and respect for this institution is appalling.".......2007-04-13

If you are interested in Icelandic film, then add "Noi" to the list of those to watch. Noi (Tomas Lemarquis) is a 17-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother in a remote Icelandic fjord. He sometimes attends high school, and when he does, he turns in blank test papers and sleeps through his French lesson. Noi establishes a daily routine of mild rebellion in which he skips school and hangs out with a Kierkegaard-bashing bookshop owner.

Noi meets Iris (Elin Hansdottir) a girl who works at a local petrol station, and it looks as though Noi's life may be improving, but instead, daily boredom and hopelessness finally push Noi to the brink of a bigger rebellion.

One of the reasons "Noi" is so very interesting is the way in which the film emphasizes the influence of climate on behaviour and mental stability. Even Noi's albino complexion seems to be the result of living in this frozen landscape. The oppressive silent blanket of snow and ice doesn't make life impossible, but it does make it extremely difficult--and the simplest things become monumental tasks. Noi even has to dig his way out of his front door, and at one point Noi tries to meet Iris outside, but it's freezing cold, so they are forced to take shelter. But apart from the rather obvious physical effects of the ice and snow, the climate seems to permeate the brains of the people around Noi. They exist in various states of despair and hopelessness. Humour and even the ability to experience joy or excitement are entirely absent in these people's lives. Instead the Icelandic villagers drearily huddle in their homes and entertain themselves with jigsaw puzzles or board games. Noi, in many ways, seems to be the only person in the village who realises that life there is not acceptable, and his rebellion--his attempts to escape--are manifestations of that desperate realisation.

"Noi" presents a bleak depiction of everyday life, yet the film cleverly tempers this with touches of bleak, dark humour. If you enjoy Icelandic film, I also recommend "Reykjavik 101" and "The Seagull's Laughter." Directed by Dagur Kari, the film is in Icelandic with English subtitles--displacedhuman

Exploring Remote Behavior in One of the Remotest Parts of the World.......2006-08-22

Noi is a seventeen year old teenager who lives with his grandmother. He is rebellious on a personal level regarding school and his personal habits, he smokes and drinks. He is not exactly disrespectful but simply is an individual who follows his own inclinations which has a tendency to get him into trouble. The fjord in Iceland where he lives is limited ... His father is an alcoholic and there is no background given regarding his mother. The film contrasts the stark cold climate in which he lives with the emotional disconnection he feels on the whole about life. Noi feels constrained, he wants something else but does not see a way out. The film explores his personal behavior and how it affects those around him ... It is a deep and haunting film which has an unexpected shake-up type ending. However the ending is open-ended. It leaves the viewer hanging, to ponder how Noi may use the experience to grow into maturity and adulthood or it may be the curve which drives him into the depths of despair. Whichever path he chooses, the event which happened will seriously affect him for the remainder of his life ...

Before this disastrous event, he challenges authority and gets involved with petty crime. He meets an attractive girl named Iris, who is visiting her father from the south of Iceland. It seems she needs to get away from city life according to her father. She jokes about wanting to leave Iceland and explore the world. Noi takes her litterally, walking together one night, he breaks the glass door to the local museum where they nearly get caught by the guards. They find an interactive map which lets them see what different parts of the world are like ... After this date, he buys new clothes, steals a car, and goes to meet Iris, challenging her to make a break with him. She sees the absurdity of this action and can't believe he took her seriously ... His brother bails him out of jail ... Prior to this, he was expelled from school for playing hookey too often. Just when it seems Noi has reached the end of his rope, a turning point, disaster strikes, his world is shaken up and nearly destroyed. This is a haunting and existential film which explores the depths of one lonely teenager's life ... and makes him face the realities of life. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

Amazing.......2006-05-20

This is an amazing film. Honestly, one of the greatest films I have ever seen before, a must buy.

See the Rainbow Hanging Low.......2005-10-09

Noi the Albino (Dagur Kari, 2003)

This film has a most unexpected deus-ex-machina--an avalanche. One of the most helpless endings I've watched in my entire life. The story takes place in a remote town in the north of Iceland. The sense of desolation is simply overwhelming. The mountain from the beginning looms ominous. Seventeen year old Noi live within a very small network of people. He is loved, but he is lost. No wonder. There is not much future imaginable in this town.

He rejects school, he rejects work. A desire for evasion is secretly burning but without consequences. When he finally tries to do something, he fails. And on that night, his entire "community" is destroyed. He is left with a toy viewer through which he dreams of Hawai'i. The end.

Oh, but Iceland. How can I not be intrigued by the country. I'll be there one day. One day, si dios quiere!

One thing of special interest. The rainbow hangs very LOW in Iceland.

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