“What is it you do in life?” Lola asks Hlynur. “Nothing.” “What kind of nothing?” “The nothing kind of nothing.” Hlynur is not exaggerating. The protagonist of “101 Reykjavik,” possibly the first and ...

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There’s never been a movie slacker quite as lazy and ineffectual as stubble-faced, cherubic-faced Hlynur — the supremely irresponsible protagonist of Baltasar Kormakur’s prize-winning Icelandic comedy ...

“Landscape in a film is fine if it has a special meaning. It’s the same as sex, if it’s only for exploitation, then it’s not interesting.” “101 Reykjavik” opens in New York on Wednesday at the Film ...

He’s jammed with tribesmen in west Africa. He’s masqueraded as a cartoon reggae-hop pop star. Now, he’s teamed up with pop eccentric Einar Örn Benediktsson to score a soundtrack for Icelandic yoof ...

Iceland, Denmark, Norway and France (France ... what's it doing in these frigid latitudes?) co-produced this slacker comedy set in Reykjavik (101 is the zip code). Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) is a ...

Part of the Design Hotels group, Iceland's first boutique-hotel is located in the heart of downtown on a busy street near the major shopping area. Located next to the Opera House and close to the ...

We were overjoyed to be asked, at the end of another long British winter, to review a slick new coastal hotel. Immediately we thought of alfresco dining and chirping cicadas. We were not expecting to ...