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Grimsey (Spanish)

By Golu
This atmospheric queer drama about loss and self-discovery had an interesting premise but the execution is terrible and so is the acting. Also Iceland is so beautiful and despite the fact that 80% of the film is focused on taking us through the country, they have miserably failed to capture the essence of the beauty of the country which is a terrible shame. Photography is negligible. At least audience could have enjoy beautiful locations in this other wise bland film that did not need more than 15 minutes of a short film.

Bruno is determined to find Norberto, his boyfriend who left for Iceland and he hasn't heard from him in about 2 weeks. Bruno arrives in Reykjavik, he reports him missing in police station. As he continues his search anxiously, the man befriends a local tour guide, Arnau, who joins Bruno’s road trip across Iceland to find the mysterious man. They first go to Vic, where Norberto was last seen in a hotel few days back. They dont find him but meet two other Spaniard tourists who had met Norberto and tell Bruno that he mentioned he would be going north of the island. Bruno is desperate to find him and they decide to go all the way north , where also he is not found. Eventually Arnau says there last hope is the island off main island called Grinsey where barely anyone lives there. They go there and finally Bruno finds address of Norberto. He goes to meet him, sees him outside, they both at each other and Bruno just leaves. Back in Reykjavik, Arnau gives him a final farewell and Bruno just says that he will now need to create new memories without Norberto.

The plot in the film is hardly there. Almost 70% of the film is driving through the country but what a missed opportunity where at least they could have shown the great beauty. The characters have no chemistry. We are never told anything about Bruno and Nornerto's relationship at all. Why they fell apart and what was the whole point of Bruno searching for him but not talking a single word? Maybe he just wanted to know if he was alive or dead? And what was Arnau's story? Why did he suddenly up and leave and decide to go on this road trip with Bruno? There are barely any dialogues and whatever little is spoken feels like it's being read from the script without any emotions at all. Maybe the makers wanted to show how loneliness impacts all of us and how we are looking for companionship between all of us. Great, but what an extremely boring way to prove your point. Also except for the fact that they were likely boyfriends, there is no other queer aspect about the film. It could just hav been anyone with no changes needed to the script. (2/10)
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