If there's one thing that the ongoing pandemic has reinforced for many people, it's the importance of human connection - and, beyond that, as we Zoom with our friends and relatives, the importance of physical touch. All of which makes Marteinn Thorsson's warm-spirited and humanistic drama - which includes its own hat-tip to Covid - a timely watch.
The Backyard Village of the title is a collection of Icelandic holiday lets - a place which, apparently, actually exists in the real world - where Brynja (Laufey Elíasdóttir) has decided to spend a couple of days after leaving a health spa and rehabilitation centre, reluctant to face what awaits her at home. Her time with her own thoughts is broken when British tourist Mark (Tim Plester) pops round in the hunt for paprika, an exchange which leads to the two of them sharing dinner.
While Brynja is the more obviously troubled by family events from.
The Backyard Village of the title is a collection of Icelandic holiday lets - a place which, apparently, actually exists in the real world - where Brynja (Laufey Elíasdóttir) has decided to spend a couple of days after leaving a health spa and rehabilitation centre, reluctant to face what awaits her at home. Her time with her own thoughts is broken when British tourist Mark (Tim Plester) pops round in the hunt for paprika, an exchange which leads to the two of them sharing dinner.
While Brynja is the more obviously troubled by family events from.
- 3/31/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Icelandic director’s fourth feature follows a woman reluctant to return to the city she lives in and taking lodgings in a small guesthouse. Marteinn Thorsson’s fourth feature, a drama entitled Backyard Village, is now ready for release. The Icelandic director’s previous credits include his debut feature One Point O, Stormland (2011) and Karlovy Vary award winner Xl (2013). The story of Backyard Village, penned by Guðmundur Óskarsson (here also serving as producer), revolves around a 40-year-old woman called Brynja (played by Laufey Elíasdóttir) who, after spending some time in a health spa in a small town, cannot bring herself to cross the heath separating her from the city she lives in, unwilling to meet her mother who has just returned to Iceland after leaving the family 35 years earlier. Brynja takes lodgings in a small guesthouse called Backyard Village, where she meets...
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