A Little Trip to Heaven

This was an intriguing, although not satisfying,, movie and one I still felt was worth my few bucks I paid to rent it.It was filmed in Iceland - one of the few films I've heard of with that locale -... Full review

A LITTLE TRIP TO HEAVEN is a strange little Indie film by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a young director with some very fine ideas but with a script (written both by the director and Edward Martin Weinman) 'that is so... Full review

This somewhat awkward transition to American markets finds Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur a bit over his head with this little mystery. In effect, A Little Trip to Heaven plays a bit like the watered down, third-rate cousin of the thriller... Full review

After a suspicious fatal car accident in Hastings where the identity of the victim was forged, the Quality Life insurance company sends their smart investigator Abe Holt (Forrest Whitaker) to identify the body. The unique beneficiary of the one million... Full review

i have to say that this was a well acted, very well directed little offering, i would like to have seen more of Peter Coyote as i thought he portrayed the part of the Investigator with relish, and seemed to... Full review

I really love Icelandic cinema and all those stories which have an inherent ancient Nordic mysticism or spiritualism about them. I knew nothing about this film prior to viewing it at the Melbourne Film Festival except that it was Icelandic. Having... Full review

Great movie, amazing to see see how they used the countryside of Iceland to display a small town in the USA. As well as the scenes from the "big city" which where all shot in Reykjavík the capital of Iceland,... Full review

I went into this screening without any prior knowledge of the film, and I was pleasantly surprised. Well acted and well directed, this is a more mature and deeper "thriller" than we're accustomed to. The story is compelling with enough... Full review

I got a chance to see this film in Toronto and I have to admit I've been thinking a lot about it since. Visually, it's so beautiful... and yet stark and haunting (apparently it was filmed in Iceland). But what... Full review

I was really surprised by this screening. I had heard of the director's foreign-language movies but never seen them. So I had not much to go on except that I like the actors... I knew it was a thriller of... Full review

A rather clever film noir script is given a rather icy pallor --....According to the police, they found the body of a disreputable scam artist who was killed in a car crash.... ... Full Review

However as the film progressed the environments became visually stunning.....Julia Stiles, Peter Coyote, and Jeremy Renner also add their acting talents to the story of an insurance investigator trying to figure out whether.... ... Full Review

But watching A Little to Trip to Heaven on DVD, well over a year after seeing it for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the film was actually better than I remembered. Isolde spends most of the movie looking either scared or sad or desperate, or any combination of the three. ... Full Review

A few, atmospheric moments hint at what this tangled narrative of insurance scams and family secrets might have been in the hands of a more accomplished director, but Baltasar Kormakur ( 101 Reykjavik ) mostly neglects to connect all the narrative dots into a satisfying whole. ... Full Review

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Natalie Portman is standing off to the side at the People/Time magazine pre-party on Saturday, looking diminutive and beautiful, but going somewhat unnoticed. She seems excited about her table for dinner that night. ... Full Article

Likely the most unduly understated news from last week, Mugison walked away with three honors from the Icelandic Music Awards . When considering music from Iceland, one might be prone to think of the ethereal sounds of Sigur Rós or... ... Full Article

A Little Trip To Heaven was directed by Baltasar Kormakur and is headlined by Forest Whitaker. Julia Stiles, Peter Coyote, and Jeremy Renner also add their acting talents to the story of an insurance investigator trying to figure out whether... ... Full Article

Once you've conquered the world of pop music, what's left to do? Why, a little bit of soundtracking, of course! Perhaps I exaggerate-the man known only as Mugison (though he also has a tendency of referring to himself as "Mugimonkey")... ... Full Article

Baltasar Kormákur's "A Little Trip to Heaven" opens in an insurance company's office, where a widow is bullied into signing for a check lower than the amount that her husband's policy indicated. ... Full Article