VIRGIN MOUNTAIN
(orig. FÚSI)
Iceland 2014
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: German
Director: Dagur Kári
Camera: Rasmus Videbæk
Script: Dagur Kári
Editor: Oliver Bugge Coutté, Andri Steinn
Cast: Gunnar Jónsson, Arnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir
Producer: Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormákur
Music: Karsten Fundal
Sound: Ingvar Lundberg, Kjartan Kjartansson Music Slowblow
Distributer: Alamode Filmverleih
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Age Limit: <
It could be a simple story: man meets woman. But not with Kári. His interest concerns figures who are ”slightly different”, ”misplaced” and who thus create more interesting situations than characters that conform. Kári`s affection for ”outsiders” is a leitmotiv in all his films. In this film it is Fúsi, a seriously overweight 43-year-old who works at the airport, has not yet left Iceland or his parents and goes through the same routines every day. Until he meets a woman at a dancing course. The film, with its typical Scandinavian laconic but sensitive narrative style, shows the small emotional changes in this huge man. The film has already won international prizes.
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