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Cold Fever (1994)
Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This Icelandic odyssey reveals Japanese star Nagase (who first came to notice in the West in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train) to be a screen actor of deceptive skill and enterprise. Here he's stoicism itself, and the core of the picture, as a Tokyo fish-company salaryman who follows the advice of his grandfather (Suzuki) and travels to Iceland to perform authentic funeral rites for his geologist parents, who died there more than a decade ago. He meets all sorts en route - including a kindly local (Halldórsson, most sympathetic) and a bickering American couple (Stevens and Taylor). But in the end, this is a quirky, touching road movie that actually goes somewhere; its culmination is a striking spiritual affirmation and personal epiphany at journey's end. A one-off that lodges in the memory.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Producer: Jim Stark
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Gisli Halldórsson, Fisher Stevens, Lili Taylor, Seijun Suzuki, Laura Hughes full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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