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Jar City (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Jar City' (Icelandic: 'Mrin' "The Bog") is a 2006 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormkur. It is based on 'Mrin', a 2000 novel written by Arnaldur Indriason and released in English as 'Jar City'.
Kormkur is in the midst of producing an English-language remake, also called 'Jar City', which will be set in Louisiana.
Plot
A world-weary cop comes to believe a recent murder of a middle-aged man is linked to a case of possible rape three decades earlier by a group of friends and a corrupt cop. Working through, he finds it linked to neurofibromatosis, a rare disease among Nordics. One thing leads to another and he puts the pieces together. A geneticist father loses his child to neurofibromatosis and his search for answers leads to his degenerate father and unravels many missing person cases during the decade.
Like the book on which it is based, the film is implicitly a semi-critique of the gene-gathering work of the Icelandic company deCODE genetics.Lucy Burke, "Genetics and the Scene of the Crime: DeCODING Tainted Blood", 'Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies', 6 (2012), 193208. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2012.16.
Cast
* Ingvar E. Sigursson as Erlendur
* gsta Eva Erlendsdttir as Eva Lind
* Bjrn Hlynur Haraldsson as Sigurur li
* lafa Hrnn Jnsdttir as Elnborg
* Atli Rafn Sigursson as rn
* Kristbjrg Kjeld as Katrn
* orsteinn Gunnarsson as Holberg
* Thedr Jlusson as Ellii
* runn Magnea Magnsdttir as Eln
* Gumunda Elasdttir as Theodra
* Walter Grmsson as Handrukkarar
* Sveinn lafur Gunnarsson
* Magns Ragnarsson as Lgfringur
* Rafnhildur Rsa Atladttir as Kola
* Jn Sigurbjrnsson as Albert
Soundtrack
The score was composed by Mugison.
Track listing:
# "Til eru fr"
# "Sveitin milli sanda"
# "Bum bum bambal"
# "Erlendur"
# "Ellii"
# " Sprengisandi"
# "Fyrir tta rum"
# "fram veginn Nikka"
# "fram veginn"
# "Halabalbblbblei"
# "Malakoff"
# "B b og blaka I"
# "Myrra"
# "Kirkjuhvoll"
# "B b og blaka II"
# "Dagn"
# "Heyr, Gu raust mna"
# "Lyrik"
# "N hngur sl"
# "Sofu unga stin mn"
# "dur til Hildigunnar"
# "Svefnfr"
# "Frsvefn"
# "Svefnfr, sngur"
# "N legg g augun aftur"
Incidental music:
Extract from George Frideric Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio Solomon
Prizes
The film was awarded the 2007 Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It also won the Breaking Waves Award at the 15th Titanic International Film Festival in Budapest with a 10,000 prize; the film was screened with the title 'Bloodline'.
DVD
A Blockbuster Exclusive Region 1 DVD was released in the U.S. and Canada. Otherwise, the film was not released commercially in America. It has also been released on DVD in Europe and is available on iTunes.[http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/69954/jar-city.html "Jar City"], The Digital Fix (Film), 1 February 2009.
References
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