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Alissa Simon, Variety: Baltasar Kormakur's latest is a touching, low-key depiction of an incident in which a fishing boat sinks a few miles from shore. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Kormakur's film suggests that the enigma of Gulli can somehow be found in his peasant humility, his connections to his community. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Even knowing the outcome ... doesn't diminish the intensity and awe of watching it recreated in this deftly framed docudrama by prodigious Icelandic auteur Kormakur. Read more