Metalhead

2013 • 100 de minute

Despre acest film

Fuelled by a remarkable breakout performance by actress Thora Bjorg Helga, director Ragnar Bragason's intense drama of loss, faith, redemption, Megadeth and Judas Priest begins with a farming accident in the 1980s that sends a young girl, Hera, and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the death of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother. A decade later and Hera is transformed into a sexy, surly headbanger and DIY musician, dressed in black leather and a Slayer t-shirt, clutching her dead brother's electric guitar as she howls anthems of rage to a barn full of cows. Seemingly trapped in a haunted landscape of slaughterhouses and barren winter fields, making all the wrong choices in her life – including coming on to the local priest and sleeping with her platonic best friend – Hera slowly, painfully comes to terms with her family's loss and the sound of her own true voice. Partly inspired by the Norwegian black metal church burnings in the early 1990s, METALHEAD features a soundtrack of 1980s and 1990s headbanging classics by Riot, Teaze, Savatage, Lizzy Borden and Megadeth. Winner of 8 awards at the 2014 Icelandic Film Awards including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor & Actress, and Original Score. 2013 MYSTERY ISLAND

Evaluări și recenzii

After the sudden, accidental death of her older brother, a girl in rural Iceland immerses herself in the heavy metal music and culture her brother loved. "Metalhead" is her journey through grief to an understanding of who she is as a woman, apart from the tragedy that defined her youth and the expectations of friends, family and society at large. Beautiful film, if a bit bleak and frustrating. Very funny in parts, with an ending that is perhaps too happy. The scenes of the Icelandic countryside are worth the price of admission, and the heavy metal soundtrack helps set the film apart.

One of the best movies of the last few years.

Atmospheric, starkly beautiful and surprisingly uplifting.