Go Quiet

Iceland, United Kingdom

2010

45 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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ED Dean DeBlois, Elliott Sellers

MUSIC Jon Thor Birgisson, Alex Somers

Jonsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his New Year’s Eve party. He avoids cleaning up and instead plays songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of one gone by. —IMDb

Director

Dean DeBlois

Dean DeBlois (born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and animator. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the Disney animated film Lilo & Stitch, and Dreamworks animated film How to Train Your Dragon and directing the Sigur Rós documentary/film Heima. His other credits include Mulan and the forthcoming The Banshee and Fin Magee, as well as the 1980s Canadian animated series The Raccoons.

DeBlois started his career at Hinton Animation Studios and worked as animator on The Raccoons and The Teddy Bears’ Picnic. He then joined Don Bluth’s Sullivan Bluth Studios in Ireland and worked on Thumbelina and A Troll in Central Park. He also co-wrote the movie Mulan for Disney. In 2003 he directed Lilo & Stitch with Chris Sanders. He also made his directing debut on Heima, and later shot Go Quiet for Jonsi. He is now at DreamWorks Animation, where… read more

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Mugino

9Sep11

Jónsi's twinkling music and sweetly mournful voice are wonderful -- of course -- but as a "film", this leaves you wanting. The cute premise described in the synopsis is not really there; it's merely a collection of beautifully photographed acoustic performances by Jónsi. The tiniest hint of an actual narrative would have made this much more powerful and cohesive.