I feel like a bit of a slacker, having only seen four films Monday at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. But summer – kept at bay since Friday by cool and cloudy weather – seems to have arrived in this little valley in the mountains and I can’t quite bring myself to go back inside. Plus I messed up by sitting through the entirety of a press screening that I’d planned to leave early for a public screening it overlapped with. Oops.
The film I stayed with was XL from Icelandic director Marteinn Thorsson. It’s a wild jigsaw puzzle of self-destructive behavior, centering on a member of Parliament whose life hasn’t just gone off the rails but demolished them in the process. Leifur (Olafur Darri Olafson) is confronted by his boss, the prime minister, who tells him that he’s made arrangements for Leifur to enter rehab – the next day.
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