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'Small town youth anomie mixed with Kaurismäkian gloom, mostly charming and sometimes inspired'
Jonathan Romney - SIGHT & SOUND
'Icelandic cinema digs out a major new talent with NÓI ALBINÓI, the feature début of award-
winning short filmmaker Dagur Kári. Portrait of a gifted teen rebelling against life's limits in a
frozen coastal village communicates directly with auds through an inspired mix of realism,
humor and metaphor.'
Deborah Young - VARIETY
'The debut feature from young Icelandic director Dagur Kári is one of those films that seems absolutely of their own place and yet curiously cosmopolitan. With its characteristically Nordic comic melancholia and strikingly photographed scenery, NOI THE ALBINO could not have been made anywhere but Iceland, yet its theme of smalltown teenage frustration chimes with any number of independent films from the US - or indeed anywhere else. Its mixture of traditional arthouse lyricism with Kaurismäki-style black humour, youthful romanticism and reassuring
genre familiarity should make it a healthy commercial prospect on the specialist circuit as well
as a popular fixture with festival crowds.'
'The mood at times resembles a tougher version of Lasse Hallstrom's Oscar-nominated 'My Life
as a Dog', but more than anything recalls the tartly tender more comedy of vintage Bill Forsyth.'
Johnathan Romney - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL (Rotterdam)
'Fans of Aki Kaurismaki will warm to NÓI ALBINÓI, a mordant and slyly funny Icelandic film...
veers between comedy and tragedy, but the actors are all very good, never once angling for
pathos...a darker companion piece to '101 Reykjavik''
Sukhdev Sandhu - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (Cannes)
'Marks the debut of a major talent, Dagur Kari, and is the rare film, that manages to be both, an artistic breakthrough and an audience pleaser'
Ryan Warner - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
'The humour is always present. You laugh a lot, but still NÓI ALBINÓI is a film about desperation,
infused by this nordic blues that created the reputation of Aki Kaurismaki'
Edouard Wainthrop - LIBERATION
'An optical feast, Dagur Kari’s NÓI ALBINÓI freezes the glittering whites and aquas of near empty
Icelandic fjord and throws in a few priceless sight gags to boot in its deadpan study of hypo-
thermic adolescent listlessness'
Jessica Winter - THE VILLAGE VOICE
'Marks the debut of a considerable talent...this inspired mix of realism, humour and metaphor'
'One of the year’s most auspicious and likeable debuts - one which walks proudly to its own, singular rhythm'
EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
 'An Icelandic filmmaker of global importance, with his debut feature announcing him as
a rare and phenomenal talent'
'...Gloriously displays Kari’s incredible eye for detail. He creates wonderfully vivid and quirky
characters and scenarios, while the influence of American indie directors (Jim Jarmusch, Hal
Hartley, David Gordon Green) is apparent in his effortless blending of comic and tragic events'
Nick Dawson - THE LIST (EDINBURGH FESTIVAL)
'A beautifully photographed film from Iceland... (Noi’s) odd behaviour propels the narrative in strange, unpredictable directions... In tone reminiscent of Aki Kaurismaki... it achieves an extremely high level of cinematic art'
Andrew Pulver - THE GUARDIAN
'An existential and darkly comic portrait of a lacklustre teenager’s life... has the same hint of fantasy as the most inventive of autobiographical comic books'
'Kari has created a delicate film that is very much an impressive and unique debut'
Dave Calhoun - DAZED & CONFUSED
FILM OF THE MONTH
'An angsty, bristling moodscape of a movie that could bring the Icelandic film industry’s reputation in line with that of its party scene'
Skye Sherwin - SLEAZENATION
'A fresh debut feature from Icelandic director Dagur Kari... (Noi) as played by the striking
Lemarquis, this tall, bald, pale youth is a fascinating creation... it’s hard not to warm to this un-
conventional character'
David Cox - LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
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