Continue with Facebook Continue with email. King of Triads. Powered by a healthy diet of hay, oats and Jameson, Men of Horses is the most original cover band you’ve ever seen. drama , comedy. 4. of . An extraordinary tale exploring the timeless relationship between human and horse, Of Horses and Men is an equine odyssey from celebrated Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Cold Fever, Devil's Island) and director Benedikt Erlingsson. Humans' outsides feel the benefit of horses' insides, too. First Dance 4. A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Of Horses And Men is a striking debut, and one to be applauded. This is a world of roiling emotions that are natural and dignified in horses, but clenched and unhappy for their human masters. Against a breathtaking seaside landscape, a cast of hot-blooded characters … . I wonder what the Gipper would have made of this short, sharp, startling little movie from Iceland: a rather bracing film in which the insides of humans interact with the outsides of horses. Of Horses and Men Watch Trailer. Of Horses And Men, film review: Beautiful imagery set against rugged, Icelandic backdrops (15) Benedikt Erlingsson, 81 mins Starring: Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving Kolbeinn (Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson) and Solveig's (Charlotte Bøving) attempts at love are the subject of much interest for the valley dwellers. Page . Of Horses And Men 7. Kolbeinn is courting Solveig, a widow (or conceivably divorcee) played by Charlotte Bøving; she lives a short horse-ride away with her elderly mother and small son. Each involves at … Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross í oss) is a 2013 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. WINNER OF BEST DIRECTOR at San Sebastian Film Festival and Tokyo International Film Festival. One alcoholic, desperate for the kind of strong liquor that seems to be unavailable, uses a strong-swimming horse to ferry him out to a Russian trawler where he might be able to buy vodka: a purchase that ends in disaster. Das Konzert von Rusty Roosters, Of Horses and Men und Inverno im Spielboden wird auf Juni 2021 verschoben. Among Them, A Pair Of Wistful Human Lovers Are Thwarted By Equine Libidos, … The human inhabitants are smallholders and horse breeders who take a certain curtain-twitching interest in each other's business. Above all, all the people in the valley share a love of their horses, and eventually come to understand one another. Of Horses and Men. Read Between The Lines 12. 5.3 Nouvelle-Zelande : terre d'aventures. Soul Of My Mind 9. Hoffentlich klappts im Juni ... bis dann. 16/06/2014 | Brussels Film Festival 2014 Horses are the language that allow the human characters to speak to each other. But actually this film makes that play's solemnity and shock value look self-conscious and silly. He gave it four stars out of five and called it "something truly and seductively strange" and "tenderly attuned to the weather and landscape, both of which are captured in you-could-almost-be-there vividness, and underscored by a heady swirl of choral works and primal drumming. The ride started gently enough, allowing Chris to become familiar with the steady rise and fall of the horse beneath him. 6. Undisturbed, the stallions and mares do what nobody else in the valley dares to even talk about: love. Dream Away 13. 1h 21m. The film tells the story of the horse and how man has depended upon it. But he soon began to feel the early stirrings of discomfort, down there. A love story about horses, with horses … Of Horses and Men. 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