Synopsis:

This is the delightful story of a man, Fúsi, who leads a monotonous and solitary life and divides his time between his work and his mother at home. And then he meets Sjöfn, a girl who pushes him outside the protection of his routines. Virgin Mountain is narrated in a simple yet masterful way. Visually it connects with other Icelandic movies (Rams, Hross í oss, Hjartasteinn) that make use of descriptive shots and open frames of nature to underline the smallness of the human condition. The film has an urban setting, and the visual treatment combine beautiful contrasts between inside and outside shots. It is precisely by avoiding the usual setting of a vast and severe Nature, that the film better captures the social problem of isolation. The director Dagur Kári proposes to cure the diagnosed disease: the necessity to break his island condition and become permeated by the strange, the alien (“the other”). This act of becoming permeated by the alien will be one of the clearest symptoms of a change in Fúsi’s attitude towards life. This film is a gift everybody should watch to be infected by the tenderness and understanding that emanate from its main character.

2015: Festival de Tribeca: Melhor filme, actor (Jónsson) e guião

2015: Festival de Valladolid - Seminci: Melhor actor (Jónsson)

2015: Festival de Berlim – Selecção Oficial