This Icelandic Drama Film Metalhead Looks Pretty Cool

TwitchFilm claims that Icelandic director Ragnar Bragason is a big deal in his home country, and who are we to challenge that assertion? The trailer for his new film Metalhead, above with English sub-titles, certainly makes the film look really interesting, and the shots are stunningly gorgeous. Of course in Icelandic it’s difficult to look anywhere that isn’t stunningly gorgeous; the whole country is like what you might imagine a colonized, atmospherized-for-humans moon would like look several hundred years into the future. Still, credit where it’s due for what looks to be a visually arresting movie.

The film is a dark drama about a young, female metalhead struggling with inner turmoil. Here’s a synopsis from the Toronto Film Festival:

There are some things you never get used to. That’s certainly the case for Hera, the heroine of Ragnar Bragason’s Metalhead. As a young girl she witnessed the accidental death of her brother, Baldur, a long-haired heavy-metal devotee. She promptly remade herself in his image — wearing his clothes, and listening to and playing music at earshredding volumes — as an expression of her grief, her anger, and a reminder to her parents that they haven’t really dealt with their loss. Still, as the end of high school and the arrival of adulthood looms, her acts of rebellion no longer satisfy her the way they once did, and Hera begins to act out on a larger, more destructive scale.

If you happen to be attending the Toronto Film Festival this week, Metalhead has one showing left: tomorrow night, Friday the 13th, at 9pm at Scotiobank 10.

Thanks: Joshua C.