Can't We Just Watch Golden Girls Reruns?
Kristbjörg Kjeld takes the higher ground
Celebrate Age is a new competition category at India's Mumbai Film Festival. Its goal:
To showcase ad-films, short fiction films, documentaries and feature length films on the concerns, spice, fun and adventure of growing older.
Sounds good in theory. But how do you take the subject of Alzheimer's and give it spice? Why, you give the task to an Icelander, of course.
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson wrote and directed Mamma Gógó, and this last October, his movie (and actress Kristbjörg Kjeld) wowed the judges in Mumbai, and won the Celebrate Age competition. See what all the buzz is about:
To showcase ad-films, short fiction films, documentaries and feature length films on the concerns, spice, fun and adventure of growing older.
Sounds good in theory. But how do you take the subject of Alzheimer's and give it spice? Why, you give the task to an Icelander, of course.
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson wrote and directed Mamma Gógó, and this last October, his movie (and actress Kristbjörg Kjeld) wowed the judges in Mumbai, and won the Celebrate Age competition. See what all the buzz is about:
Friðriksson is no stranger to declining mental states.
His movie Englar Alheimsins (Angels of the Universe)
has often been called an Icelandic One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,
and won the Edda Award for Best Film in 2000.
His movie Englar Alheimsins (Angels of the Universe)
has often been called an Icelandic One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,
and won the Edda Award for Best Film in 2000.