Marteinn Thorsson's Backyard Village ready for release
Backyard Village, penned by Guðmundur Ãskarsson (here also serving as producer), revolves around a 40-year-old woman called Brynja (played by Laufey ElÃasdóttir) who, after spending some time in a health spa in a small town, cannot bring herself to cross the heath separating her from the city she lives in, unwilling to meet her mother who has just returned to Iceland after leaving the family 35 years earlier. Brynja takes lodgings in a small guesthouse called Backyard Village, where she meets Mark (British actor Tim Plester), a 50-year-old Englishman who has been staying there ...
Source: cineuropa.org