Director: Baltazar Kormakur
Starring: Hilmer Guonason, Margret Vithjalmdotter
Year: 2008
On a remote island off the coast of Iceland, it is the day before his wedding as Jon (Guonason), a middle-aged professor prepares to marry one of his ex-students half his age. Jon is reticent bridegroom, having to contend with his cantankerous future mother-in-law who is obsessed over money she is owed by Jon from a failed business venture to build a golf course. Jon also must deal with his drunken best man who has lost his shoes and the memories of his failed marriage with his first wife from the same island. When the guests start arriving to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and reflection, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
Year: 2008
On a remote island off the coast of Iceland, it is the day before his wedding as Jon (Guonason), a middle-aged professor prepares to marry one of his ex-students half his age. Jon is reticent bridegroom, having to contend with his cantankerous future mother-in-law who is obsessed over money she is owed by Jon from a failed business venture to build a golf course. Jon also must deal with his drunken best man who has lost his shoes and the memories of his failed marriage with his first wife from the same island. When the guests start arriving to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and reflection, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
Comments: Based on Chekov's Ivanov. At times funny, bittersweet, and eccentric. The film;s setting is beautiful.
Recommended.
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