WINTER BROTHERS Clip 2 - VIFF 2017

Captivatingly shot in a cool 16mm that complements its snowy environment, Hlynur Pálmason’s immerses us in the world of an Icelandic limestone mine through the eyes of Emil (Elliott Crosset Hove), an awkward, fragile man who can’t quite fit in. An eccentric, dissonant account of outsiderdom, it’s punctuated with bursts of surrealism and bouts of humour. “An impressively original, auspiciously idiosyncratic debut, one that scratches away at truths about masculinity, lovelessness and isolation…”--Variety