An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
- Released: 2021-08-12
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ester Bibi, Sigurður Elvar Viðarson, Theodór Ingi Ólafsson, Arnþruður Dögg Sigurðardóttir, Gunnar Þor Karlsson, Lára Björk Hall
- Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Comments
- danielwa64 - 30 November 2022
A complete waste of time.
After reading the one sentence description of this movie from the cable guide, I thought it would be an interesting movie. The sentence was --- A couple emcounter sinister forces after discovering a strange and unnatural newborn in their barn.--- And there was an 86 percent good rating that went along with it. So, I was intrigued.
At the start I could see that it was a foreign film and I was worried weather it would be in English. It wasnt. It had subtitles. I hate subtitles because the last thing I want to do is read while things are happening. But, this was not a problem in this film because there were very few subtitles, due to the lack of dialogue, and very little action for any subtitles to infringe on. Then, there were chapters to the film, and I was hoping that one chapter might go backwards in time and explain things, kind of like in The Hateful Eight, or Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction, etc etc. But that never happened.
As for the movie itself, there was never any "real" sinister forces as described in the description. For half the movie I figured that maybe since the married couple didnt seem happy in the beginning that maybe the husband went into the barn and had some "fun" with a sheep and that was how Ada came about, and that would have made a better story right there, but no, it wasnt that simple, or complicated either.
The rest of the movie was a yawn fest waiting for sinister forces which never appeared.
And then the ending, which made really no sense at all.
And finally, all the people who gave this film a good rating, and the box office success in the beginning, just goes to show the intelligence of the movie going public.
