2015 · drama · coming-of-age · bleak
Sparrows
Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson1h 39m2015
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
Our read: Sparrows (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age · bleak entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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