Heartstone review: Sensitive drama with the agonies and uncertainties of adolescence
IN A remote, close-knit Icelandic fishing village, to stand out is to offer yourself as a target.
Actors Blaer Hinriksson, Baldur Einarsson and director Guomundur Arnar Guomundsson at a screening of
Thor (Baldur Einarsson) is a typical teenager who cannot wait to grow up.
He scrutinises his armpits in search of hairs and scans his reflection for any sign of a maturing body.
Teased by his older sisters and often at odds with his mother, Thor has a best friend in Kristjan (Blær Hinriksson).
The boys have a bond that sustains them against bullies, the mysteries of the opposite sex and whatever life throws in their path.
Then Kristjan begins to wonder whether his feelings for Thor run deeper than friendship.
Heartstone may be overlong but it is a sensitive drama that captures the agonies and uncertainties of adolescence.