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The Quiet Storm

2007 · 102 min Drama
4.0 / 10 · TMDB

A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.

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Original Title Veðramót
Year 2007
Country Iceland
Genre Drama
Director Guðný Halldórsdóttir
Runtime 102 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.0/10 (6 votes)

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The film constructs a tense contrast between hippie utopian ideals and the harsh reality of adolescent rebellion, relying on Iceland's sparse landscape as a metaphor for emotional isolation. It explores how good intentions crumble against walls of mistrust and inherited trauma.

What lingers after viewing is a quiet, chilling study of authority's fragility and the high cost of naive idealism in a closed system. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Guðný Halldórsdóttir

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Watch alone on a bleak afternoon, immersed in its slow-burn psychological chill.

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