Metalhead (2013)

Original title

Málmhaus

Directed by

Ragnar Bragason

Genre

drama film

Country

Iceland

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 238 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman returns to her family farm after her older brother's death. She copes by channeling her grief into black metal music while her parents remain distant and struggling.

melancholicgrief-strickenrawintrospectivequietly intenseatmosphericmournful

What happens

Metalhead (Icelandic: Málmhaus) is a 2013 Icelandic comedy-drama film written and directed by Ragnar Bragason. Starring Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, the film follows Hera Karlsdóttir (Helga), an aspiring black metal musician who returns to her family farm as she and her estranged parents struggle coming to terms with the death of her older brother Baldur in a tractor accident nine years prior. Metalhead premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2013, and was theatrically released in Iceland on 11 October 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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