Of Horses and Men is often sprightly, and almost every shot is an eyeful.
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Slant MagazineR. Kurt Osenlund
Slant MagazineR. Kurt Osenlund
On one hand, the film is surely a celebration of a land's distinct creatures and the people who live among them, but on the other, it's a culture's biting auto-critique.
Erlingsson has delivered an attractive slice of Icelandic oddness that confirms many of the cliches about that country’s offbeat outlook, but in a good way.