Fresh
A better-than- average tale of teenage angst that balances its tone between sorrow and buoyant good cheer.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Noi the Albino
Nói would like to be loved. Nói would like to become rich. Nói would like to escape to Hawaii.
2003 · 1h 30m · PG-13
Drama
Directed by
Dagur Kári
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Noi the Albino
Overview
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If you see only one quirky coming-of-age movie set on a remote Icelandic fiord this year, make it Noi.
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Fresh
Who can resist a movie set in a town where the natural history museum, filled with stuffed polar bears and such, is 'the wildest place in town'?
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
Fresh
As a drama, Noi seems as cold as the icy land in which it takes place. But it still offers a glimpse into a rarely seen world, and more adventurous moviegoers will find it eye-opening.
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News
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