Review of Cold Fever (1995) by Lesley N — 04 Mar 2011
Japanese businessman reluctantly travels through wintery Iceland to perform burial ceremony for dead parents. Its a good premise - road rip with extra Icelandic-Japanese culture clash- the scenery is stunning, the lead actor plays a nice mixture of confusion and adaption, and there's a cameo by Seijun Suzuki as the wise old grandfather. Downsides are too many quirky characters popping up along the way, each out-quirking the previous, and too many repetitions of the music & funeral motifs, just in case you missed them the first half a dozen times.
The scenery is stunning though.
This review of Cold Fever (1995) was written by Lesley N on 04 Mar 2011.
Cold Fever has generally received very positive reviews.
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