Getting ready for Iceland


To try and get an Icelandic mood, I have watched the film:

Hrútar (English: Rams, Italian: Rams: storia di due fratelli e otto pecore) by Grímur Hákonarson (2015), was awarded the top prize in the section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.

Essential and intense, it shows a universal story of love and hatred, persistence of the past and fear for the future. The rams of the title are two brothers, clashing with each other but also sawing the seeds to survive till the future.

All the elements have an ancestral flavour, taking us back to the dawn of creation.

Icelandic landscape and people are literally stripped to the bone to get to the very essence of things.

An invitation to discover the hidden mysteries of Icelandic dales. Of life.