Review: Icelandic drama 'Lamb' follows isolated farmers who’ve lost a child but receive an ovine surrogate
with one of the countless details, tiny and large, that make “Lamb” a tale of hypnotic beauty—and one with a wild and woolly premise that could have gone howlingly wrong. It’s what we see immediately after the Icelandic heroine, María, sits down to calm herself by playing the piano. As the first notes are heard, the camera peers inside the instrument at the hammers hitting the strings to make the music.
“Lamb,” playing in theaters with English subtitles, is sheepcentric, not to mention eccentric, and the quirky shot contributes to the tone of the film, a debut feature by Valdimar Jóhannsson that is delicately droll as well as frightening, fearlessly silly and weirdly profound.
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