TIFF 2017 Movie Review: THE SWAN (SVANURRIN) (ICELAND 2017) ***

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A nine-year-old girl is sent to a country farm in Iceland to serve her probation for shoplifting. The girl finds a kind of freedom by submitting to the inevitable restraints and suffering of remote rural life.

Director:

Asa Hjorleifsdottir (as Ása Helga Hjörleifsdótirr)

Writers:

Guðbergur Bergsson (novel), Asa Hjorleifsdottir (as Ása Helga Hjörleifsdótirr)

Stars:

Ingvar Eggert SigurðssonThor Kristjansson,Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir

Poor nine-year old Sól (Grima Valsdóttir). She is not having it too good. Sol is sent to live with her aunt in rural Iceland as a punishment for shoplifting and her parents are splitting.

She does not like it at the farm, as in her own words, the place is old and smells weird. Adapted…

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