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Uggadóttir
And Breathe Normally, a film from Iceland, was released in that country in early 2018. It is now available on Netflix. It is earnestly recommended.
Written and directed by Isold Uggadóttir, who lived in New York for 10 years and has made a number of short films,
And Breathe Normally takes up unusually both the condition of refugees
and the condition of the working class in Iceland.
And Breathe Normally
One of the strongest features in Uggadóttir’s film, which sets it apart to a certain extent, is the degree to which Kristín Thóra Haraldsdóttir, in a fine performance as Lára, an economically hard-pressed young woman on her own with a son, allows the extreme tension of her situation to play on her features. More generally, there are not that many films in which a director captures accurately and artistically the relentless, “everyday” pressures of working class life.