6.6
Playing by Heart
1998
The Sacred Mound (1993)
November 19, 19931h 24mIS
5.2
12 votes
Overview
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
Director
Hrafn GunnlaugssonWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Icelandic
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
SF StudiosSvenska FilminstitutetNordisk Film & TV FondF.I.L.M.SVTFilmTeknik
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When 7-year-old Gestur's mother goes abroad she sends him away to a farm in the country. There Gestur makes friends with Helga, a 20-year-old woman who in the beginning is more of a mother substitute. Soon she becomes the boy's object of desire, and he cannot stand the thought that there may be another man in Helga's life. When Gestur discovers that she actually has a boyfriend, he becomes so jealous that he concocts a plan so cruel only a child in love could have thought of it. COMMENTARY Hrafn Gunnlaugsson is back in the present again after several films set in prehistoric Iceland. This semi…
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