101 Reykjavik
Hlynur’s world is falling apart. He loves one-night stands and affairs with no strings attached. So he has no qualms about going to bed with his mother’s flamenco teacher. Then he finds out that she is his mother’s lover – and that he is possibly about to become a father. Lola is pregnant. Now the two women announce that they want to bring up the child together. All this while Hlynur is still living under his mother’s roof and claiming social security. A black comedy set in Reykjavik’s vibrant night-life. (Festival information)
The director Baltasar Kormákur finds convincing images to contrast the breadth of the Icelandic landscape with the petit-bourgeois closeness of human relationships in the city. This debut film takes up the questions young people are asking themselves. And with its black humour it liberates us from a moralising view of life.