Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) and Maria (Noomi Rapace), farmers living in a remote and lonely part of Iceland, have only recently lost their young daughter - so when one of their sheep gives birth to a lamb with human legs and a human arm, they don't at all wonder about this but keep it in their daughter's steadm even give it her name, Ada. Everything should be fine, but Ada's sheep mother wants her daughter back - so badly that Maria eventually shoots the mother dead. So things couldn't be happier - and then Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson), Ingvar's brother, arrives, and he's more than a little surprised about and irritated by little Ada. So much so actually that he eventually wants to shoot her dead - but ultimately takes to her instead and becomes something like a second dad to her ... which eventually leads to him making moves on Maria, upon which she sees herself forced to send him away. Problem is, Ada didn't only have a real mother, but also a real father, who might come looking for her ...

Lamb is nothing if not a very unusual film. Basically it's the retelling of a fairy tale, but in terms of direction it goes for very sober authenticity, firmly places the story in the here and now and shines a very unromantizised light on modern farmwork - which is also the source of much of the film's irony, especially when in the finale the plot's fairytale origin finally shines through. That said, Lamb isn't much of a comedy per se, more of a fable for adults. All that said, the movie also requests a bit of patience, as its story takes its dear time to unfold, leading to some dull stretches, but also to some enjoyably dry punchlines. So despite the rather sensationalistic premise, don't expect a spectacle of a film - to ultimately be rewarded for taking it slowly.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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