Talk:Noi the Albino

Noi is not an albino
Just to clear it out. He's not an albino. The name is just to get the feel that he's different from all the other. The director has stated this himself. Just so that you can see the difference from an albino and Noi, here's a --Steinninn 04:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Title in English
Noi Albinoi appears to be its official title in English. Is there any reason why the article shouldn't be moved to that page? Lfh (talk) 14:11, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

DVD details
Nói albínói Alternative Title: Noi the Albino

Release Date: Friday, January 24, 2003 MPAA: Rated PG-13 for language and brief nudity. Runtime: France:82 min | Iceland:93 min | Netherlands:90 min (Rotterdam Film Festival) | Netherlands:95 min | Sweden:89 min | USA:93 min

Set in Bolungarvik (pop. 957) in Iceland's Western Fjords. Bolungarvík is a fishing village in the far North-West of Iceland, located at the Vestfirðir peninsula.

The moody original musical score is from the director's band Slowblow.

"Nói is singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards." (Los Angeles, Times Kenneth Turan)

DVD Features
 * 5.1 surround
 * Deleted scenes
 * Making of featurette
 * US theatrical trailer
 * Previews
 * Weblinks

• Gérard Lemarquis, who plays the French schoolteacher, is the father of 'Tomas Lemarquis', who plays Noi. Gérard Lemarquis is a French schoolteacher in real life, and the director 'Dagur Kari' was one of his students. • Palm trees are repeatedly present in the movie as a symbol: on the Viewmaster slide, on Noi's father's shirt, on the cake her grandmother bakes and on the green wallpaper at his house. • The beach footage in the end was shot in Cuba. In the original shot, Noi was walking on the beach. However, the director cut it, because he wanted a more ambiguous ending.

The extras on the DVD reveal that the director prefers less-professional actors and ambiguity. He was not at all trying to portray real life in that village; he was trying to tell a fantasy story about an alien. Within the movie the recurring tropical theme seems to connect to Hawaii, but the repeated beach picture which comes alive at the end was actually filmed in Cuba; the director imagines that a sequel might be filmed there.

Filming locations for Nói albínói:
 * Bolungarvík, Iceland
 * Cuba
 * Reykjavík, Iceland
 * Ísafjörður, Iceland
 * Þingeyri, Iceland

-96.233.30.113 (talk) 23:26, 18 January 2010 (UTC)