It’s snowy, it’s isolated, it’s probably the most boring town to live in, especially when your IQ is high enough to solve a Rubik’s cube in seconds. However, director Dagur Kári managed to create a slow film that’s actually entertaining enough to keep you hooked until it ends, and you won’t be disappointed when it does! Nói albínói’s got comedy, drama, love story, family issues, an old lady with a shotgun, an amazing all-white scenery and a photography direction that’ll make you drop jaws. Here’s how it goes: Nói’s a seventeen year old high school student (from time to time), who you’ll learn to love as the movie takes place. The perfect choice of making him an albinoi, which has no effect on the plot what so ever, makes every outdoor scene poetic, showing the extreme emptiness the town and himself are suffering. But being a genius doesn’t imply being perfect. Nói’s given up on his life and gets kicked out of school, deeply disappointing his drunken father. This is when his whole life starts revolving around Iris, the new girl in town, from the city, who with he’ll fall in love and plan to leave with. I need to give special props to the final twist, the “blueish” tone which almost made me feel the Iceland cold in the middle of summer, and the acting performance of Tómas Lemarquis (Nói), who did an excellent job in not overdoing the part. - Federicca

In the version of The Moldy Peaches’ “Anyone Else But You” sang by Michael Cera and Ellen Page at the end of Juno, the verses in the lyrics are reordered to match each of the character’s personality in the movie. He sings “we both have shiny happy fits of rage, you want more fans I want more stage” to what she answers “you’re always trying to keep it real, and I’m in love with how you feel”, which was the other way in the original version, thus filling the gaps between music and story and making an amazing soundtrack. If you smile at this and/or find it one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever read, you should see this movie and get the soundtrack. - postbop

I've finally seen this movie about English skinheads’ movement in the early 80’s. It seems making documentary movies about music movements and urban subculture is quite trendy nowadays. Fortunately, it doesn’t mean we are pushed to watch tones of mediocre movies that were filmed just because it’s trendy. All of them are at least entertaining. “This Is England” is actually far from being a documentary. It focuses on the human side of the movement more than music or politics. The 12 year old kid who becomes a skinhead is a great actor and the whole story of desperation, manipulation and violence touches you. The social atmosphere is nothing new: working-class youngsters living in the suburbs under Thatcher’s rule. In fact, the Falklands issue appears on the movie (the father of the kid died in the war). I don’t know what skinheads will think about this movie but I highly recommend it. - Grey