Back Soon

Skrapp út

Iceland, France

2008

92 Min

Color

1.85:1

Icelandic

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Patrick Sobelman, Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Pórir S. Sigurjónsson

SCR Sólveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget, Tuna Dís Metya

CAST Didda Jónsdóttir, Joy Doyle, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Julien Cottereau, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Erpur Eyvindarson, Jörundur Ragnarsson

SOUND Jean Mallet

Mar del Plata (International Competition), Locarno (Piazza Grande), Stockholm

Synopsis

Back Soon is a shift from the serious tone of Solveig Anspach’s previous films to something much more light-hearted. In this off-the-wall comedy, Anna Hallgrimsdottir, in her late thirties, is undergoing an existential crisis. She decides to quit her job, sell her business to the highest bidder, and leave with her two sons… but being a dope dealer, the biggest supplier on the island, complicates things somewhat. Back Soon, an offbeat Scandinavian farce, full of imaginative flights of fancy, reveals a whole new aspect to Solveig Anspach. Following a documentary made in 2001, this is her first fiction feature, a co-production with Iceland, where it was filmed. –Locarno FIlm Festival

Director

Sólveig Anspach

Sólveig Anspach (born 8 December 1960) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1998. Her film Stormy Weather was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia