Drama

Beautiful Beings

20222h 3m★ 7.3

Drama

Addi, a gifted boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys discover aggression, violence, loyalty, and love.

Cast

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Director

Birgir Dagur Bjarkason

Addi

Áskell Einar Pálmason

Balli

Viktor Benóný Benediktsson

Konni

Snorri Rafn Frímannsson

Siggi

Anita Briem

Guðrún (Addi's mother)

Cast

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Director

Birgir Dagur Bjarkason

Addi

Áskell Einar Pálmason

Balli

Viktor Benóný Benediktsson

Konni

Snorri Rafn Frímannsson

Siggi

Anita Briem

Guðrún (Addi's mother)

Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir

Hulda (Balli's mother)

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Svenni

KÍ

Kristín Ísold Jóhannesdóttir

Hófí (Balli's sister)

Blær Hinriksson

Símon

TP

Theodór Pálsson

Danni Braindead

KG

Kamilla Guðrún Lowen

Anna

AE

Aðalbjörg Emma Hafsteinsdóttir

Fríða

SL

Sunna Líf Arnarsdóttir

Helga

DG

Davíð Guðbrandsson

Haukur (Addi's father)

Þórhildur Ingunn

Elísa (Addi's sister)

Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir

Unnur (Balli's social worker)

ÁA

Árni Arnarson

Toni

SF

Stefán Franz Guðnason

Jónas

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Writer

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Comments

3 Comments

Fallén BiiAug 15, 2025

A captivating, often brutal dip into the lives of four 14-year-old boys in roughly 2000-era Iceland. Addi, the one with a conscience, takes badly bullied Balli into his group of friends after feeling a twinge of compassion at seeing him being mistreated. The acting from the four first-time protagonists is exceptional. Award-worthy. I can easily see them being named joint best actors at festivals (I saw it twice in Berlin). Áskell Einar Pálmason as Balli delivers an understated masterclass in nervous glances, twitches and despair. It's all the more impressive to see how, as the character eases into life with his first friends, his body language changes, almost imperceptibly. Birgir Dagur Bjarkason may well take the plaudits with his turn as Addi, he carries the film on his young shoulders and doesn't put a foot wrong, whether joining in the violence or experiencing the dreamlike (often nightmarish) visions that give the film its Icelandic name. Snorri Rafn Frímannsson has less to do as Siggi than the others but has charisma and backs the others up as his character does on screen. But for me it is Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, as Konni, who delivers the star turn. A thug known as The Animal, his Konni is able to deliver the aggression needed to make his character believable, punching and swinging wildly through the film in an often terrifying manner. But one by one the layers are stripped away to reveal - not that he would admit it - the scared boy trapped in the young man's body. Such a broad performance would test actors twice his age but he aces it. They all do. A note on the fight scenes, which through a combination of beautiful camera work and expert, almost balletic choreography come across as some of the most realistic I can remember. This isn't filmic violence, these are kids kicking lumps out of each other. Harsh, cold, real, shocking. One criticism comes in the pacing at the end and an inclusion of possibly too many story strands that don't really have chance to justify their place in the final film. It feels a bit like a 2h30 film that a producer has demanded becomes 2hrs. If that's the case I hope a director's cut will follow - I would gladly spend all day in the company of the fascinating characters that director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson has so expertly and lovingly brought to the screen.

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