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Film: The Oath/EIÐRINN

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Category: Entertainment
Start date: 06 Sep 2017 06:00 PM
End date: 06 Sep 2017 09:00 PM
Street / Location: 58 Park Avenue
City / town: New York
Country: New York, USA
Organizer: Scandinavia House
Name: Jennifer Hutzel
Email: jennifer@amscan.org
Phone: 2127793587
Homepage: http://www.scandinaviahouse.org

Icelandic auteur Baltasar Kormákur directs and stars in this psychological thriller about a father who tries to pull his daughter out of her world of drugs and petty crime, only to find that danger can be found in unexpected places.

The Oath offers a profoundly universal tale about a parent’s responsibility for—and anxiety over—his adult children. At the same time, the film is uniquely Icelandic, ruminating on both the impact of the country’s relatively sudden urbanization (Finnur’s father, a sinister and abusive figure, was a rancher who lived alone for much of his life) and its long-standing tradition of dogged independence. Finnur’s dilemma, caught up in his quest for personally delivered justice, evokes Icelandic sagas. (Iceland, 2016).