Jar City (film)
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94% Rotten Tomatoes Director Baltasar Kormakur Story by Arnaldur Indriðason Duration | 7/10 75% Metacritic Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Country IcelandGermanyDenmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 20 October 2006 (2006-10-20) (Iceland)21 October 2007 (2007-10-21) (London Film Festival)20 September 2008 (2008-09-20) (UK wide release) Writer Arnaldur Indriðason (novel), Baltasar Kormakur (screenplay) Initial release October 20, 2006 (Iceland) Cast (Erlendur), Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir (Eva Lind), (Sigurður Óli), Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir (Elínborg), Atli Rafn Sigurðsson (Örn), Kristbjörg Kjeld (Katrín)Similar movies The Spy Who Loved Me , Hitman , Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller , The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , Blood Simple , Wild Things |
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Jar City (Icelandic: Mýrin – "The Bog") is a 2006 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is based on Mýrin, a novel written by Arnaldur Indriðason and released in English as Jar City.
Contents
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- Plot
- Cast
- Soundtrack
- Prizes
- DVD
- References

Kormákur is in the midst of producing an English-language remake, also called Jar City, which will be set in Louisiana.

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Plot

A world-weary cop comes to believe a recent murder of a middle-aged man is linked to a case of possible rape three decades earlier by a group of friends and a corrupt cop. Working through, he finds it linked to neurofibromatosis, a rare disease among Nordics. One thing leads to another and he puts the pieces together. A geneticist father loses his child to neurofibromatosis and his search for answers leads to his degenerate father and unravels many missing person cases during the decade.

Like the book on which it is based, the film is implicitly a semi-critique to the gene-gathering work of the Icelandic company deCODE genetics.
Cast
Soundtrack
The score was composed by Mugison.
Track listing:
- "Til eru fræ"
- "Sveitin milli sanda"
- "Bíum bíum bambaló"
- "Erlendur"
- "Elliði"
- "Á Sprengisandi"
- "Fyrir átta árum"
- "Áfram veginn – Nikka"
- "Áfram veginn"
- "Halabalúbbúlúbbúlei"
- "Malakoff"
- "Bí bí og blaka I"
- "Myrra"
- "Kirkjuhvoll"
- "Bí bí og blaka II"
- "Dagný"
- "Heyr, Ó Gud raust mína"
- "Lyrik"
- "Nú hnígur sól"
- "Sofðu unga ástin mín"
- "Ódur til Hildigunnar"
- "Svefnfræ"
- "Fræsvefn"
- "Svefnfræ, söngur"
- "Nú legg ég augun aftur"
Incidental music: Extract from George Frideric Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio Solomon
Prizes
The film was awarded the Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2007. It also won the Breaking Waves Award at the 15th Titanic International Film Festival in Budapest with a €10,000 prize; the film was screened with the title Bloodline.
DVD
A Blockbuster Exclusive Region 1 DVD was released in the U.S. and Canada. Otherwise, the film was not released commercially in America. It has also been released on DVD in Europe and is available on iTunes.
References
Jar City (film) WikipediaJar City (film) IMDbJar City (film) Rotten TomatoesJar City (film) MetacriticJar City (film) themoviedb.org