Under the Tree

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Under the Tree

2018

1h 29m

Comedy

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When Baldvin and Inga's next-door neighbors complain that a tree in the couple's backyard casts a shadow over their sun deck, what starts off as a typical spat between suburbanites soon spirals violently and unexpectedly out of control.

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Under the Tree leads viewers into decidedly bleak territory, but it's leavened by sly intelligence and a surprising sense of humor.

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Demetrios Matheou

London Evening Standard

Aug 20, 2018

4/5

This is a cracking film, though the good people of the Icelandic tourist board may be holding their heads in their hands.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Aug 14, 2018

5/5

A remarkable writer-director gifted with razor-sharp wit and an uncanny grasp of human foibles, Sigurðsson is the best approximation to a 21st century Billy Wilder that contemporary cinema has to offer.

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Ed Potton

The Times (UK)

Aug 10, 2018

3/5

It's a striking, if slightly silly, curio from the writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson: 85 minutes of Bergman-lite topped off with five minutes of Tarantino.

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Dan Scully

Cinema76

Mar 20, 2020

At a time where catharsis increasingly takes precedent over progress, Under the Tree has become essential.

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John Tones

Espinof

Jul 12, 2019

3.5/5

The movie's humor is cooked at low temperature, discreetly, with small explosions of cruelty.

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Naila Scargill

Trebuchet

Feb 28, 2019

A deliciously dark satire that examines the fragile nature of civility in a suburban setting, where it can take very little to provoke savagery and the collapse of a delicate social order.

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Wolfgang G

@RT51462348 Dec 7, 2023

Under the Tree ist eine düstere Schwarze Komödie von Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson… Weil der Baum von Inga und Baldvin einen Schatten auf das Grundstück der betuchten Nachbarn wirft, entsteht ein heftiger Streit zwischen dem Ehepaar und ihren Nachbarn… Streitende Nachbarn, wer kennt das nicht, aber dieser Streit eskaliert… Eine schwarze Komödie mit giftigem Humor aus Island… Die Charaktere sind gut ausgearbeitet und die Schauspieler sind überzeugend… Gesamthandlung der Inszenierung solide und glaubwürdig…

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Krzysztof P

@RT62723140 May 18, 2022

Dramat o walniętej babie i sąsiedzkiej spinie. Zbędny wątek żony młodego. 2/3 filmu rozwleczone i nudne. Ciekawsza końcówka z mocniejszym wydźwiękiem

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chris k

@chrunaway Jul 1, 2021

If you're into a bit of wry - deeply cruel - humour, you're absolutely going to love this.

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Jul 3, 2020

THERE IS NO REASON TO WATCH THIS FILM. I’m very open-minded in my tastes, and this was so bad it’s maddening.

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les n

@Vegas628 Sep 3, 2019

Entertaining until the final 2 minutes with the silly Hollywood ending.

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mauro l

@Mauro_Lanari Apr 22, 2019

Something is rotten even in the state of Iceland. Overturning "The Tree of Life" (Malick, 2011), under the natural (a secular tree) or prefabricated (Ikea) shadow of an apparent coexistence exemplarily civil, phlegmatic and orderly, the human emotional geysers erupt, anorexic in the soma and hypertrophic in affective wounds, chain reactions originated by inexorable traumas since without body, corpse, tomb. These cascade mechanisms of frustration are already known to comparative psychology and in 1980 Resnais has dedicated to them perhaps his best film, "Mon oncle d'Amerique", with respect to which "Under the Tree" is derivative. (Mauro Lanari)

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Synopsis

When Baldvin and Inga's next-door neighbors complain that a tree in the couple's backyard casts a shadow over their sun deck, what starts off as a typical spat between suburbanites soon spirals violently and unexpectedly out of control.

Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Producer: Grímar Jónsson, Sindri Páll Kjartansson, Þór Sigurjónsson
Screenwriter: Huldar Breiðfjörð, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Madants, One Two Films, Profile Pictures, Netop Films
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Icelandic
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 6, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 9, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $66.4K
Runtime: 1h 29m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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