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as a "collection of six-or-so interlocking fables about a group of rural Icelanders’ relationships with their horses and each other, and which run the gamut from stony-black comedies of sex and death to chilly meditations on the blind cruelty of fate." He gave it four stars out of five and called it
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based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 7.60 out of 10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Well-crafted and resoundingly original,
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In a remote Icelandic valley, there is not much to do other than observe the horses, the neighbors, and the neighbors' horses with
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Above all, all the people in the valley share a love of their horses, and eventually come to understand one another.
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is as intelligent, inscrutable, and breathtakingly lovely as its titular equines."
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List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the
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Benedikt Erlingsson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Icelandic
drama film
Benedikt Erlingsson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Best Foreign Language Film
86th Academy Awards
Nordic Council Film Prize
Tromsø International Film Festival
binoculars
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Charlotte Bøving
Steinn Ármann Magnússon
weakness for liquor
Kash Erden Baater
Kjartan Ragnarsson
Helgi Björnsson
Sigríður María Egilsdóttir
Juan Camillo
Helgi Björnsson
Charlotte Bøving
Sigríður María Egilsdóttir
Maria Ellingsen
Juan Camillo Roman Estrada
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
Erlingur Gíslason
Kristbjörg Kjeld

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