The Royal Tenenbaums
A few of the boys here are fans of director Baltasar Kormakur who is Iceland’s most prolific director at the moment, his film White Night Wedding is screening at the Toronto Film Festival this year and he is still riding the waves that his breakout thriller Jar City made when it came out abroad. The man is insanely busy, working on the edit of his Hollywood debut Run For Her Life (having just snagged the Dark Knight’s James Newton Howard to do the music), writing the “sequel” to Jar City and a untitled Viking project and while doing this he is also producing and starring in a new film by Icelandic cult director Oskar Jonasson which is written by the author of Jar City Arnaldur Indridason. The film is Reykjavik Rotterdam, a thriller about a down on his luck ex con who decides to do one last booze smuggle job to get his finances in order. As one would expect from a story like this things don’t go as planned and start to spiral out of control.
A poster and a trailer have been released to promote the film but sadly it’s only un subtitled at the moment. The trailer is located on the Blueeyes Productions website on the left side of the screen.
Not the strongest trailer around but then Icelanders have never been able to cut together a good movie trailer for some reason.
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Reader Comments
Ben Giles 09/05/2008 @ 5:50am
The trailer appears to have disappeared. I’m not exactly sure, as the message I was greeted is… Icelandic?
Swarez 09/05/2008 @ 6:14am
Hmm, that’s true. It’s been taken down. But I’ve updated the link to the production company’s web site.