An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
- Released: 2021-08-12
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ester Bibi, Sigurður Elvar Viðarson, Theodór Ingi Ólafsson, Arnþruður Dögg Sigurðardóttir, Gunnar Þor Karlsson, Lára Björk Hall
- Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Comments
- dearoceanfilms - 10 April 2024
loved the premise but...
The movie is unique, slow paced and the story itself is so intriguing and fun to watch but the ending is not so fulfilling to me... why do i feel it ended in the middle of nowhere... feel like there should be a more meaningful or bizarre ending... maybe cos i've got brainwashed by typical American films... Great performance, I didn't get bored even though there weren't many dialogues.
But who's fault though...The human or the human lamb... this type of movie always making me thinking a lot and reflecting and debriefing about being a human.
Really hope to see the sequel in the near future. There's a look in Maria's last glimpse. - jmbovan-47-160173 - 26 November 2023
Icelandic film of folklore and grief
Lamb is an Icelandic film, and I'm assuming speaks to the quiet isolation of the Icelandic rural farmland. (I haven't traveled there so can only assume from other films ive seen.) Beautiful scenery is captured, and the pacing is engaging without requiring the trappings of tension building in most American films.
A farming couple raise sheep. And one day, an ewe gives birth to a lamb-human hybrid. The husband hands this to his wife, and she swaddles this being as her own. They raise this being as Ada and appear happy in this new life.
There are obvious signs of grief working in this film, but also a sense of supernatural that brings this film tonally to that of folklore. But, this isn't the sanitized version of a Grimm tale.
I watched this largely for Noomi Rapace, and I was pleased with her and the film overall. Contemplative and sorrowful, Lamb questions how we can love and how our actions reverberate in our lives. Some suspension of belief is needed for thr premise, but this isn't difficult to suspend given the emotions portrayed by the actors.
