"full of twisted humor"
There are quite a few novels that are made into films, which more often than not have ended in a big hit.
the question of which is better, the book or the movie. And everyone has their own opinion. But when it comes to the story Ör by Auður Öva Ólafsdóttir and the film Hotel Silence by Canadian-Swiss filmmaker Léa Pool, it can be safely said that both are of great merit. The receptions testify to that.
Auður Öva's work in question was published in 2017 and was her fifth novel, which tells the story of a certain Jónas.
Ebenezer, a 49-year-old divorced, impotent, heterosexual man who has not held
around a woman's bare body – at least not intentionally – for eight years and five months. But he is
handy. The warrior has tiled seven bathrooms and when he sets off on a journey he
has no intention of turning back, he takes a drill with him.
"...has not kept track of
bare female flesh
– not intentionally anyway –
for eight years and five months.”
As if this isn't exactly typical Auður Ava, as has been said in reviews of the work.
that there goes a small book with a big heart. It is full of sly humor and sparkling, lively language
and also asks pressing questions about life and death, and above all about love, which is all that matters.
exchange, as it says in one place.
And now this playful story has been transformed into a movie that RIFF guests can enjoy at the festival, but the film was
premiered in Montreal, Canada this spring in the presence of the book's author, who, reportedly, had a mind and
the hearts of the local media who wanted to interview him one by one. Because who writes like this
unbelievably good?
"all at once full of humanity, eccentricity and irony."
The director, Léa Pool, who was born in Switzerland, has, in addition to her work in filmmaking, taught the profession of
University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, but although she is supposed to be retired, she has
could not stop creating any more than many other artists in their later years. So why not capture Ör on film. And Léa can certainly be pleased with the result, because major newspapers such as the Sunday Times have
kicked her in the ass, but this black comedy that deals with the heavy nature of man, as it is
is, as the saying goes, "all at once full of humanity, eccentricity, and ironic snobbery."
