Metalhead

Metalhead

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Release Date

10/11/2013

Runtime

97 mins

Overview

A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.

Status

Released

Original Language

Icelandic

Budget

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Revenue

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A spare, wintry portrait of adolescent grief and isolation in 1990s Iceland, where a young girl channels her loss into the cathartic escape of metal music. It's a quiet, deeply felt film about the solace that rage and creativity can offer when life feels suffocating.

Mood

MelancholicDefiantBleakWistful

Themes

GriefComing of ageFamilyArt and creation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturatedDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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