Ingaló

A quiet, windswept coming-of-age drama of strained family ties and hard coastal labor, unfolding slowly with a somber, lived-in realism.

Directed by

Ásdís Thoroddsen

Genres

Drama

Starring

Sólveig Arnasdóttir, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Haraldur Hallgrimsson

Overview

Ingaló is helping her father on his small fishing boat, but he's an obstinate character and relations between them are tense. After a dance in the village which ends in a fight between the local people and crew of Matthildur ÍS 167, a visiting fishing boat, Ingaló and her younger brother leave home. Ingaló stays briefly in Reykjavík and has a short affair with Vilhjálmur, a man in his thirties. Sveinn has found a job on Matthildur and Ingaló is taken on as a cook. The fishing is poor and when the vessel breaks down it heads for home port, where the crew stays in derelict living quarters for seasonal workers. Ingaló finds out that Matthildur's owner and big wheel in town is none other than Vilhjálmur.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Family, coming-of-age, isolation, class

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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