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Cold Fever

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A Japanese man (Masatoshi Nagase) finds misadventure and eccentric characters while in Iceland to perform a memorial service for his parents.

Critics Reviews

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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 01/10/2017
If Cold Fever takes too long to come into focus to be fully satisfying, it nonetheless has an undeniably endearing quality. It also looks great and has a driving, eclectic music track. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 01/10/2017
Strange, often funny, and occasionally beautiful. Go to Full Review
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune 01/10/2017
3.5/4
Like Iceland itself, Cold Fever may seem a trip most audiences initially will reject -- as too distant, too strange, too icebound. They're wrong. Once seen, this cold, feverish wonderland is never forgotten. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 06/03/2018
B
Finely tuned English speaking comical road movie set in Iceland. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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06/06/2015 This has been one of my very favorite movies of all time. I love the panoramas of the frozen country, rugged, cold, bitter and brittle juxtaposed with the story of loss and ultimately forgiveness with love, differences of societies and expectations, mysticism and truths. The harsh externals and complications of all that is internal...I'm sounding lofty; it was just a wonderful movie. I thought the characters were fun. Anyway, a lovely way to spend some time. Enjoy! See more 06/06/2015 This has been one of my very favorite movies of all time. I love the panoramas of the frozen country, rugged, cold, bitter and brittle juxtaposed with the story of loss and ultimately forgiveness with love, differences of societies and expectations, mysticism and truths. The harsh externals and complications of all that is internal...I'm sounding lofty; it was just a wonderful movie. I thought the characters were fun. Anyway, a lovely way to spend some time. Enjoy! See more 03/04/2014 Excuse the pun, but it is a cold film to start with. Took me over it's halfway mark to warm to it (ahem), but I'm really glad I sat through to its wonderful end. Very rewarding. See more 07/21/2013 A gem of a road movie See more 10/27/2012 Waste of a good premise about a reluctant young Japanese man in Iceland to give traditional funeral rites for his parents. Nice end spoiled long before by a long string of senseless wacky characters including a couple who argue using hand puppets. See more 10/17/2012 a japanese man stranded in the mystical landscape of iceland on a mission to conduct the final tribute for his late parents. a weird but entertaining road movie. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A Japanese man (Masatoshi Nagase) finds misadventure and eccentric characters while in Iceland to perform a memorial service for his parents.
Director
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Producer
Jim Stark
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 23m