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      Either Way

      2011 1h 25m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 65% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Finnbogi and Alfred paint lines on a highway and cannot get along until cracks in their shells appear and they talk. Read More Read Less

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      Jamie Neish HeyUGuys The performances delivered by Gunnarsson and Guðjónsson do wonders to create some particularly noteworthy moments of humour and heartache and its 1980's setting allows for a level of benevolence most films are lacking. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 14, 2018 Full Review Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) "Either Way" is a slight, ultra-dry comedy with a lot of empty spaces and plenty of silences. But the two main characters are just so endearing that their chemistry fills the gaps nicely. Rated: 3/4 Apr 22, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Marked by a dry sense of humour, this lighthearted Icelandic comedy is about two very different colleagues who unexpectedly over a weekend at work find condolences in each other for their failed romances and undergo a switch in their relationship status. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Two fellas are working together in the middle of nowhere on Iceland. They set poles to ground next to the roads and paints yellow stripes in the middle of them, five meters apart. Alfred and Finnbogi know eachother. Finnbogi is married to Alfreds sister. She is in Vienna while they are working. Alfred is only 24 and likes to party and get laid in the weekends. They share a lot, they fight a bit. There are ups, there are downs. Few other people are involved, only a truckdriver really, that regularly shares some quality moonshine with the workers before he get's back on the road. I like this film for it's simplicity and it looks. The stories and the acting. Atypical like most Icelandic flicks and a short little treat. Remade as "Prince Avalanche" two years later with names like Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. It's does not look as bad as it should, but I'll doubt is better than this one. 7 out of 10 bottles of Hagavadallin. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member anyway u slice this one up i'ts 80 minutes of boring either way! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Seriously, nothing happens in this film. The most interesting thing that happens is that one of the guys catches two fish. The scenery is panoramic but uninteresting - volcanic rubble. The moonscape is more diversified. Same lines occur over and over, the most annoying being, "We have to get you laid." Unbelievably tedious. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member The relationship of and between 2 men in the vast and emptiness of Iceland. Their journey seems like their work, endless and useless because it is repetitive.. but despite this.. it shows how friendship is important! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is beautiful in it's sparseness and bare bones storytelling. Two men whose job is to paint lines on a desolate Icelandic highway deal with their problems with love. Believable dialogue and evenly paced. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Finnbogi and Alfred paint lines on a highway and cannot get along until cracks in their shells appear and they talk.
      Director
      Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
      Screenwriter
      Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      Icelandic
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 9, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 25m