
Directing
Dagur Kári
Born 1973-12-12 · Paris, Frankrig
Dagur Kári (born Dagur Kári Pétursson; 12 December 1973; Paris) is an Icelandic film director. He was born in Paris, France, to Icelandic parents. The family returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. After attending local schools as a child, Kári went to Denmark for college. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, having created the art house short movie Lost Weekend. The film won 11 prizes on the international festival circuit. Kari's first feature film Noi the Albino (Nói albínói, 2003) won several international awards. His second film, Voksne mennesker (Dark Horse, 2005) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, he finished his first English-language film The Good Heart, starring Americans Brian Cox and Paul Dano, and French actress Isild Le Besco. He is also a member of the band Slowblow. He featured their music in Nói albínói. In December 2011 it was announced to produce a drama film Rocketman, which eventually became Virgin Mountain, with Baltasar Kormákur and Dagur Kári was set to direct the film. In January 2013 it is again announced that film will be produced by Kormákur with his partner Agnes Johansen. Denmark's Nimbus Film will co-produce the film. Film's production started in February and will be filmed in the end of 2013, is expected to release in 2015.
Acting credits
NRWidow Chloe travels to Japan for work where she is welcomed by an old friend, Toshi. Sliding between the melancholy of loss and the awe of perspectives changed, Chloe wanders an unfamiliar landscape where love has carved all the guiding grooves.
I'll Be Your Mirror
2024
6.6A documentary about the bustling Icelandic musical scene. This documentary covers some of Iceland's most talented and well-known musicians.
Screaming Masterpiece
2005
Behind the camera
6.4Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
The Good Heart
2009
6.4Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
The Good Heart
2009
7.2Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.
Virgin Mountain
2015
7.2Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.
Virgin Mountain
2015
6.9A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
Dark Horse
2005
6.9A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
Dark Horse
2005
6.6Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?
Dramarama
2001
7.0There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
Old Spice
1999
7.0There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
Old Spice
1999
7.017 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
Noi the Albino
2003
7.017 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
Noi the Albino
2003
5.8A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, the secrets spill out and threaten to spoil the most important thing of all, the 'hygge'.
Hygge!
2023
5.8A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, the secrets spill out and threaten to spoil the most important thing of all, the 'hygge'.
Hygge!
2023
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The Violinmaker
1997
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The Violinmaker
1997
The DJ is stranded. But where?
Lost Weekend
1999
The DJ is stranded. But where?
Lost Weekend
1999