(“There’s a corpse down there” is a statement that requires more emotion, one would think, than it was afforded here.) There’s a clichéd scary notebook written by a scary dead child, and a few instances of really bad CGI. ![]() There’s nothing new here, and one or two moments when people don’t seem to react properly. It’s a quiet, meditative piece (for the most part), exceedingly Gothic in its treatment of place and weather and in its atmosphere of melancholy tinged with just a tiny hint of supernatural fear. But that isn’t really a criticism so much as an observation. I generally enjoy a good slow burn, but even I found it difficult at times to watch this with my full attention. Meanwhile, (also) in Iceland, Garðar, Katrín, and Líf start encountering their own Weird Stuff, which of course is tied to Freyr and Dagný’s Weird Stuff. This opens up a new avenue of inquiry in the case, and Dagný tells Freyr that the police have pulled the files on a previous case centered on the same church, which also involved a person with cross-shaped wounds on his back. Freyr is working late one night when a shadowy figure who might be his missing son Benni leads him down to the morgue, where he discovers that the recent suicide victim’s back is covered in cross-shaped scars. ![]() The other storyline follows married couple Garðar and Katrín and friend Líf, who journey to some isolated spot in Iceland’s hinterlands to convert an old abandoned house into a B&B.Īs Freyr and Dagný work on the suicide case, certain details emerge, as they tend to do, which tie the two narratives together. Freyr is asked by a local police detective named Dagný to help document a suicide at a church. There are two main narratives here: one follows Freyr, a psychologist whose son Benni disappeared some time before the movie begins. Everybody is bundled up all the time, and the landscape, while beautiful, is super bleak and frigid-looking. And boy does Iceland look cold in this film. I Remember You is an Icelandic movie, in case you were wondering what the hell any of that had to do with anything. I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise, it being, you know, Iceland and all. ![]() I was supposed to go to a conference in London this week, but my connection to Reykjavik was canceled due to inclement weather.
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