LAMB (2021) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Valdimar Jóhansson
Noomi Rapace, Hilmer Snaer Gudnason,
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
A couple living on a remote sheep farm take in a newborn lamb and care for it as if it were a human child. Which sounds odd, I guess, but this is no ordinary lamb. A movie that on paper shouldn't work, and on screen somehow does, suggesting a world gone slightly out of balance, or one that humans are out of balance with. A quietly creepy folktale, much of it wordless, filmed on location in Iceland and a prize winner at Cannes. Nicely played by its human cast, along with some exceptionally expressive (and disturbing) sheep.
