Beautiful Beings (Berdreymi) is an Icelandic film written and directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson starring Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Áskell Einar Pálmason and Viktor Benóný Benediktsson.
Premise
A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.
Release Date
January 13, 2023 (United States)
Beautiful Beings (2022) Director
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
The director graduated with a degree in fine art and then studied screenwriting. His short films have been presented at numerous festivals including Cannes and Venice. His debut feature Heartstone premiered in the Venice Days Competition in 2016 and went on to receive over 50 international awards.
Cast
Birgir Dagur Bjarkason / Addi
Áskell Einar Pálmason / Balli
Viktor Benóný Benediktsson / Konni...
Premise
A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.
Release Date
January 13, 2023 (United States)
Beautiful Beings (2022) Director
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
The director graduated with a degree in fine art and then studied screenwriting. His short films have been presented at numerous festivals including Cannes and Venice. His debut feature Heartstone premiered in the Venice Days Competition in 2016 and went on to receive over 50 international awards.
Cast
Birgir Dagur Bjarkason / Addi
Áskell Einar Pálmason / Balli
Viktor Benóný Benediktsson / Konni...
- 1/2/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
This long, Iceland-set debut steams with suppressed emotion as two teenagers explore a dawning relationship
A remote, wildly beautiful – and wonderfully shot – Icelandic village is the setting for this soulful, indulgent story of teen angst and teen sexuality, which is a feature debut for Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson. Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Kristján (Blær Hinriksson) are best friends whose home lives are both fracturing. Thor’s mother has been abandoned by her husband for a younger woman and she is not-so-secretly despised by Thor’s older, callous sisters. Kristján’s father is an obnoxious and homophobic bully. The boys make vague and maladroit attempts at romantic connections with girls, but the resulting quartet’s truth-or-dare adventures at same-sex kissing alert Thor and Kristján to another possibility: that they themselves are in love. It’s a long movie whose suppressed emotions hiss and steam like geysers and just occasionally there is something...
A remote, wildly beautiful – and wonderfully shot – Icelandic village is the setting for this soulful, indulgent story of teen angst and teen sexuality, which is a feature debut for Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson. Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Kristján (Blær Hinriksson) are best friends whose home lives are both fracturing. Thor’s mother has been abandoned by her husband for a younger woman and she is not-so-secretly despised by Thor’s older, callous sisters. Kristján’s father is an obnoxious and homophobic bully. The boys make vague and maladroit attempts at romantic connections with girls, but the resulting quartet’s truth-or-dare adventures at same-sex kissing alert Thor and Kristján to another possibility: that they themselves are in love. It’s a long movie whose suppressed emotions hiss and steam like geysers and just occasionally there is something...
- 11/17/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The new film “Heartstone” follows Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Christian (Blær Hinriksson), two pre-teen best friends who live in a small village in rural Iceland. They both have rough home lives — Thor suffers from absentee parenting and Christian has a drunk and abusive father — but the two find refuge in each other and their time spent loitering in the neighborhood, avoiding bullies, and hanging around the local diner. But when the two strike up romantic relationships with girls, it threatens to completely destroy their relationship. The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. Watch the trailer below and check out the poster as well.
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It is the directorial debut from Icelandic director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson. He has previously directed the short films “Þröng sýn,” “Jeffrey & Beth,...
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
It is the directorial debut from Icelandic director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson. He has previously directed the short films “Þröng sýn,” “Jeffrey & Beth,...
- 9/10/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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