Icelandic Film Festival – Enjoy Free Screenings of "Reykjavik Rotterdam" and "Country Wedding" at Kendall Square Cinema
Enjoy free screenings of two recent Icelandic hit films. Country Wedding (6:15 pm) is a comedy of errors set in the beautiful Icelandic countryside. This will be followed by Reykjavik Rotterdam, (7:45 pm) an award winning crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Kendall Square Cinema (1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, 617.499.1996). Admission is free.
6:15pm - Country Wedding, directed by Valdís Óskarsdóttir
The course of nuptial love doesn't run smoothly in this quirky comedy of errors. Two busloads of wedding-bound oddballs leave Reykjavik with barely a clue of how to find the far-flung chapel. As infighting, secrets and lies compound, the buses are soon seething with a hilarious tension that threatens to derail the happy couple's big day. Country Wedding has been featured in eight international film festivals and nominated for The Sutherland Trophy. In Icelandic with English subtitles, 99 minute running time.
7:45 Reykjavik Rotterdam, directed by Óskar Jónasson
For Kristofer (Baltasar Kormakur) life has been little more than a never ending series of failures and disappointments. Among other things, he made the colossal mistake of smuggling alcohol during his tenure as a shipworker - a little stunt that promptly landed him behind bars. Now, following release, he struggles to pull his life together while working as a security guard and continually attempts to support his family. Then the opportunity arises for Kristofer to do one final tour on a freighter running from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Rotterdam, Holland. Kristofer initially embraces the opportunity to work with his old friends once again - little foreseeing the malestorm of crime into which this move will plunge him. In Icelandic with English subtitles, 88 minute running time.
