Noi the Albino
2003 film by Dagur Kári / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Noi the Albino (Icelandic: Nói albinói (pronunciationⓘ) is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói (played by Tómas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland. It won multiple awards.
Nói Albinói | |
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Directed by | Dagur Kári |
Written by | Dagur Kári |
Produced by | Philippe Bober |
Starring | Tómas Lemarquis Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson Elín Hansdóttir |
Distributed by | Palm Pictures |
Release date | January 24, 2003 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Iceland |
Languages | Icelandic, French |
Budget | €1,100,000 |
Box office | $1,317,132 |
Nói albinói was filmed in Bolungarvik (pop. 957), a fishing village in the far northwest of Iceland, located on the Westfjords peninsula.
The moody original musical score is from the director's band, Slowblow.
The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan called the movie "singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards" and noted that it was a selection in "dozens of film festivals."[1] Skye Sherwin of the BBC called it "a coming-of-age tale, bound between grinding humdrum and exquisite surrealism."[2]