A trailer for Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's new film, Mamma Gogo, has hit the web, unfortunately un subtitled for all you out there.
It seems that Fridrik is returning to a subject that got him an Oscar nomination a few years back and at the same time riffing on his own career.
The story is about a director who has just released a new film, Children of Nature, the same title as Fridrik's own Oscar bait, but the film is a complete bomb and the director is on the verge of bankruptcy. While this is going on his elderly mother is showing signs of Alzheimer's but refuses to be put up in a home.
I'm guessing Fridrik is referring to how his own film didn't get any attention over here until it got the Oscar nod and then all of a sudden Icelanders love it, which is something we tend to do over here, we need foreigners to like our stuff first before we do, like Sigur Ros and Bjork.
The trailer is embedded below.
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