Noi
by Dagur Kári
List Price:
Our Price: $15.30
You Save: $9.69 (39%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.72 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Ţröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Anna Friđriksdóttir, Elín Hansdóttir, Hjalti Rögnvaldsson, Tómas LemarquisDirector: Dagur Kári
Brand: Universal Studios
Writer: Dagur Kári
Producer: Kim Magnusson
Producer: Lene Ingemann
Producer: Michael Schmid-Ospach
Producer: Paul Trijbits
Producer: Philippe Bober
Producer: Skuli Fr. Malmquist
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); Icelandic (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
DVD Reviews of Noi
DVD Review: haunting tale of a bored teenager
Summary: 4 Stars
In the spare and poetic "Noi the Albino," the title character is a seventeen-year-old gifted underachiever who lives with his grandmother in a dreary little village on the coast of northern Iceland. This would be a harsh, isolated environment for anyone to grow up in, but it is particularly trying for a misfit adolescent with few social skills and no real hope for the future. Noi, whose generally aloof, alcoholic father lives on his own in a different part of town, spends most of his time trudging purposelessly through the snowy streets of the village or holing up in the basement room he's carved out for himself as a kind of sanctuary from a world too utterly depressing to contemplate. Bored by school and bereft of friends, this young man drifts through life, dreaming of the day when he will be able to live on a very different kind of island in the South Seas, a location light years removed from this place where the interiors are every bit as stark and forbidding as the white-on-white world outside.
"Noi the Albino" is one of those films in which the very lack of anything significant happening becomes the central theme and message of the work. Noi lives a life that is so uneventful and boring that it would drive virtually any one of us to the brink of madness. We hardly blame him when we see him dozing through his classes at school or pilfering change from a mock slot machine set up in the local restaurant. Yet, despite the fact that virtually nothing of consequence happens, the film itself is a fascinating mood piece that seeps into our bones and makes us sympathize with the plight of the strange young man who occupies center stage in the drama. Most of the adults in Noi's life seem to sense his potential, but, for some reason, he is totally unwilling to tap into it. What's impressive about the film is that it doesn't try to explain why that is, though we sense it has something to do with the stifling environment in which he lives. Noi becomes emblematic of all people who lead lives of quiet desperation, tucked away in remote, virtually uninhabitable corners of the globe, far removed from the bustle and excitement that can be found only in places with large and diverse populations.
As Noi, Tomas Lemarquis gives a beautiful, subtle performance, creating a compelling and complex character using little more than body language and facial expressions. The final moments of the film are truly heartbreaking as Noi learns the value of what he has - even though, at that point, the realization comes too late.
Written and directed by Dagur Kari with an artist's eye for lyricism and austerity, this is a bleak but intriguing little film that will stay in your mind long past the closing credits.
Description of Noi
Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? Seventeen-year-old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Nói?s universe and offer him a better world.Bestsellers in DVD
![The Story of Jeremiah [VHS] Image](/images/noimg.gif)
The Story of Jeremiah [VHS]Vision Video; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Wresting With God [VHS]by Vision Video
Vision Video; Published: 1990-10-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
Study Bible Video with Workbook [VHS]Spring Arbor Distributors; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
Tempo:Childrens TV Favourites Video [VHS]HarperCollins Audio; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $9.17
Price in other shops:
Tempo.Herbs:Parseley'Sb/ Party Video [VHS]HarperCollins Audio; VHS Tape; VHS Video
![Strike the Original Match [VHS] Image](/images/Strike-the-Original-Match-VHS-0001374079-X.jpg)
Strike the Original Match [VHS]New Liberty Films; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
![Medjugorje The Miracles and the Message [VHS] Image](/images/Medjugorje-The-Miracles-and-the-Message-VHS-0001373293-X.jpg)
Medjugorje The Miracles and the Message [VHS]JPN Film Production; Release date: 1995-12-15; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.99
Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Review Course for Boards and Recertification DVD 2008by Mayo
DVD
Price in other shops:
Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging DVD: Single Userby Oakstone
DVD
Price in other shops:
Cost Accounting [VHS]by Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar, Howard Teall
Pearson Canada, Toronto; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)Columbia; Release date: 2010-09-21; DVD
Best price: $12.85
Price in other shops:
The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)Sony; Release date: 2004-07-27; DVD
Best price: $9.09
Price in other shops:
The ReturnKino International; Release date: 2004-10-19; Published: 2004-10-01; DVD
Best price: $14.95
Price in other shops:
Devil's IslandRelease date: 2000-07-05; DVD
Best price: $5.43
Price in other shops:
Coffee and CigarettesTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2004-09-21; DVD
Best price: $7.72
Price in other shops:
The SeaRelease date: 2003-09-30; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Sigur Ros: HeimaWEA DES Moines Video; Release date: 2007-12-04; DVD
Best price: $12.47
Price in other shops:
101 ReykjavíkGenius; Release date: 2003-04-15; DVD
Best price: $46.95
The Seagull's LaughterImage Entertainment; Release date: 2005-03-01; DVD
Best price: $16.66
Price in other shops:
White Night WeddingMPI; Release date: 2009-09-15; DVD
Best price: $12.90
Price in other shops: