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Virgin Mountain

Fúsi (Virgin Mountain)

2015

Dagur Kári

Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson ...

7.0

6,372

Drama. Romance How much does Fúsi weigh? Twenty-four stone? More? No one can say, not even Fúsi (Gunnar Jónsson) himself. Because ultimately the 43-year-old is sleepwalking through life. His work as an airport baggage handler does not exactly stretch him and he has never had a girlfriend. The only thing that really interests him are World War II battles, which he painstakingly reconstructs using small model tanks and soldiers at home, in his mother's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Dan Fainaru Screendaily	"A belated coming-of-age story sensitively told, with just the right touch of melancholy shades to make it all the more plausible"	POS
United States	Ronnie Scheib Variety	"Traces the slow, careful emergence of a gentle giant of a man who falls in love. (...) Working in small, skillfully nuanced, always surprising increments, Kari, enabled by Gunnar Jonsson’s extraordinary performance"	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A quirky, compassionate, warmly funny portrait of a gigantic social misfit with an even bigger heart"	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"A nuanced portrait of a misfit not as odd as we might have imagined, 'Virgin Mountain' can be a hair too delicate and precious at times, and it has its soft clichés. But its warmth and sensitivity is heartfelt enough to melt its cold exterior."	POS

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