2013 · drama · music · grief
Metalhead
Directed by Ragnar Bragason1h 37m2013
A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
Our read: Metalhead (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · music · grief entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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“You want grief, black metal, and an Icelandic family comedy that actually heals.”
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