I suppose, sitting deep in a Vermont winter, I shouldn't be watching movies based in winter in other cold places, but maybe misery does love company. In Hlynur Palmason's Winter Brothers, there's plenty of misery and winter, but sadly not much company. I had watched Palmason's Godland a few months ago, although I didn't make the connection until I began to explore another great Criterion Channel collection. Palmason is an Iceland director who will hopefully begin to get more notice. Winter Brothers focuses on two brothers, young brother Emil (Elliott Crosset Hove - who stars in Godland) and Johan (Simon Sears), who work in a mine. It's pretty grim, and deals with issues such as isolation and masculinity. It doesn't come together as cleanly as you might wish, and I suspect it wasn't meant to. Recommended. It's made me want to go back and watch Godland again.
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