Winter Brothers

Name: Winter Brothers
Genre: Drama
Released: June 29, 2018
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Anders Hove, Christopher Lillman, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jannik Jensen, Lars Mikkelsen

2018

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Kimstim Films | Release Date: June 29, 2018 | TV-14

Starring: Anders Hove, Christopher Lillman, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jannik Jensen, Lars Mikkelsen, Laurits Honoré Rønne, Michael Brostrup, Peter Plaugborg, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne

Summary: Two brothers work in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. The younger brother, Emil, distills moonshine made from stolen chemicals from the factory. Emil is an outsider, an oddball, who made a conscious choice for loneliness and is only accepted by the mining community due to his older brother Johan. Emil longs for passion,Two brothers work in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. The younger brother, Emil, distills moonshine made from stolen chemicals from the factory. Emil is an outsider, an oddball, who made a conscious choice for loneliness and is only accepted by the mining community due to his older brother Johan. Emil longs for passion, for being wanted and loved. When a fellow worker becomes sick, the moonshine and Emil are prime suspects. Gradually a violent feud erupts between him and the tightly-knit mining community. Parallelly, Emil feels betrayed by his brother when he finds out that the neighbor girl Anna, the subject of his unfulfilled desires, chooses his older brother instead of him. … Expand

Director: Hlynur Palmason

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 94 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jul 19, 2018

The cast, including Victoria Carmen Sonne, as the object of both Emil and Johan’s affections, and Lars Mikkelsen, as the quarry boss, is uniformly strong and singular. Read full review

Carson Lund

If nothing else, the film is a feat of formal conception and craftsmanship. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Jun 27, 2018

On the one hand, it never quite works in a conventionally satisfying manner—it is wildly uneven, occasionally obtuse and it never quite seems to have a solid grasp on what it is trying to say. On the other hand, it still manages to register in a number of unusual ways thanks to its haunting visual style, offbeat tone, and its intriguing method to put us into the disintegrating mindset of its central character. Read full review

Danny King

Jun 27, 2018

Pálmason can occasionally get bogged down in his ambiguous leanings.... But many moments attest to the high ceiling of Pálmason’s abilities. Read full review

Neil Young

Jun 27, 2018

While impressive in parts, the picture oscillates between the profitably enigmatic and the frustratingly obtuse. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jun 27, 2018

Mr. Palmason’s showy technique, magnetic on its own, ultimately seems like a way of adding mystery to a story that, like Emil, is content with having no place to go. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Jun 27, 2018

Elements of craft and performance are very persuasive but the slight storyline and recourse to awkward flights of fancy make it a film that never quite gels. Read full review

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