Movie

Northern Comfort
2023 · 97 min
A wry, gently tense ensemble comedy about anxious strangers stranded together, amusing more than hilarious, with a soft streak of warmth underneath the awkwardness.
- Directed by
- Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf
- Overview
- A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.
- How it feels
- Light, satirical, tense and warm. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Isolation, freedom, identity, friendship
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf














