L'ICEBERG
THE ICEBERG |
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Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno
Romy
Screenplay: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,
Bruno Romy
Cast:
Nattikuttuk: Lucy Tulugarjuk
FIona: Fiona Gordon
Julien: Dominique Abel
René: Philippe Martz
Awards:
Best Film, Golden Precolumbian Circle, Bogota Film Festival
(2005)
Running time: 84’
Production: Belgium, 2005
Rating: Not Rated
Gauge: 35mm (color)
Genre: Comedy
Distributor: First Run Features
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"Writer-directors
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are clearly
on the side of life's outsiders (note the particularly
inspired gag at a border check), perfectly willing to
play fate's fools so that an ineffable true love can find
its fullest, most joyous cinematic expression."
Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine |
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Fiona is the
manager of a fast-food restaurant and lives with her family
in the suburbs. She seems happy until one day she accidentally
gets locked in a walk-in industrial freezer while closing
up the restaurant. Half frozen and barely alive in the morning,
she realizes that her husband and two children didn’t
even notice that she was missing. Little by little, Fiona
develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar
bears, fridges, icebergs... One day she drops everything,
climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home:
she wants to see a real iceberg. As her adventures unfolds,
Fiona unsettles the lives of those around her. Her husband
desperately tries to get her back, but she falls in love with
a gruff sailor who accepts to bring her to the North Pole.
In the end all works out well, she goes back to her husband
and the sailor marries an Inuit tribeswoman. Using mainly
sound and vision, with very little language, Dominique Abel,
Fiona Gordon and Bruno Rony employ a series of inventive set
pieces that are sure to elicit laughter. L’Iceberg
is a deadpan Belgian comedy that speaks the universal language
of slapstick. It falls somewhere between Keaton and Tati.
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