An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
- Released: 2021-08-12
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ester Bibi, Sigurður Elvar Viðarson, Theodór Ingi Ólafsson, Arnþruður Dögg Sigurðardóttir, Gunnar Þor Karlsson, Lára Björk Hall
- Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Comments
- DuskShadow - 2 June 2024
Slow Pace, Boring, and No Actual Horror
I was expecting something far more sinister and supernatural from this, yet all I got was a very slow, often boring, pointless flick.
Seriously, it is SOOOO Slow going, there was better pacing and more intrigue in that crummy "Phonebooth" movie years ago.
The whole film could have gone a different way, and actually achieved a level of real horror, instead of just flippantly using the genre term to try and garner more interest from unknowing perspective viewers.
Well played though, film industry: You fooled me into wasting my time, and I was already apprehensive about watching some Swedish flick to begin with. Now I know better, and will trust my gut, having the foreknowledge to never give a movie such a chance again. Well...played...3/10 stars is generous. - okpilak - 13 December 2023
Not your typical movie
Unless seeing a ewe give birth to a lamb is horror to one, this is not really a horror story. There is minimal dialogue, and fewer answers. It is set at an isolated sheep farm in Iceland, with Maria and Ingvar tending to the sheep. It seems to be getting slowly better for them. However, one of the sheep gives birth to a very different lamb. A baby girl, called Ada, with a hoof for one hand, a human hand for the other, and a sheep's head. Yet, they totally accept it and raise it as a child. Later, along comes Petur, the brother of Ingvar and his arrival is unusual. Thrown aside of the road after being taken out of a car trunk, he walks to the farm. He seems accepting of Ada, and doesn't judge nor ask. And it does no good for the audience to ask, since answers will not be forthcoming. One can look back at the end of the movie to make their own answers, as things that seemed to be only in a glance become clearer. The scenery is great, and the movie is well constructed. But one has to be in the mood to accept that it will be different.
