Lamb
2021 · Movie · R · 106 min · ★ 6.4 · 77% critics
An Icelandic couple lives on a remote farm, tending their flock of sheep. Their quiet routine changes when they find a mysterious newborn on their land, and they choose to raise it, bringing hope and joy that gradually turns into ruin.
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Details
- Original title
- Dýrið
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-08-12
- Language
- IS
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (1,043 votes)
- Box office
- $3,200,000
About
You’ll likely like Lamb if you enjoy tense, remote dramas with unexpected family hope and a dark payoff; Not for you if you prefer lighter stories or comfortable resolutions like Good Manners or The Keeping Hours.
Pros: remote, eerie atmosphere; heartfelt family focus; bleak emotional arc | Cons: unsettling turn of events; heavy, tragic tone; limited character variety
Themes
- musician
- brother
- mountain
- melancholy
- iceland
- grief
- lamb
- parenthood
- birth
- couple
- mental illness
- mysterious
- +17 more
Awards & recognition
- Nordic Council Film Prize · 2022
- European Film Award — Best Visual Effects · 2021
- Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award · 2021
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2022 · nominated
- European Film Award — European Discovery of the Year · 2021 · nominated
Cast & crew
Noomi Rapace
as María
Hilmir Snær Guðnason
as Ingvar
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
as Pétur
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
as Creature
Ester Bibi
as Woman
- SV
Sigurður Elvar Viðarson
as Truck Driver
- TÓ
Theodór Ingi Ólafsson
as Man
- AS
Arnþruður Dögg Sigurðardóttir
as Woman 2
- GK
Gunnar Þor Karlsson
as Bus Driver
- LH
Lára Björk Hall
as Ada (voice)
Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson