Sódóma Reykjavík
Remote Control movie storyline. In this Icelandic comedy, it seems like Axel (Bjorn Fridbjornsson) has a simple problem. His mother wants him to find her television’s remote control, and she’s convinced that he’s responsible for it being missing. However, right away you know something is strange about her phone call: she is threatening to let his goldfish swim out of the drain of the bathtub he’s been keeping them in if he doesn’t find it.
It turns out that Axel didn’t have anything to do with it being missing, and that his sister’s boyfriend stole it, and it was melted in a house fire. Fine. Now he’ll just get one from the dozens his friend the bootleg electronic merchant has in his warehouse. Alas, it is not to be. Every small effort he makes in the direction of acquiring a remote control sends him deeper and deeper into bizarre and frantic situations.
Remote Control (Icelandic: Sódóma Reykjavík (About this sound pronunciation is a 1992 Icelandic film directed by Óskar Jónasson. The plot is a farce, revolving around the young car mechanic Axel and his adventure in the Reykjavík underworld which starts when his mother insists that he must recover the remote control to her TV. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson as Axel, and features the Icelandic metal band HAM.
Remote Control – Sódóma Reykjavík (1993)
Directed by: Óskar Jónasson
Starring: Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson, Þórarinn Eyfjörð, Thorarinn Oskar Thorarinsson, Helga Braga Jónsdóttir, Soley Eliasdottir, Margrét Hugrún Gústavsdóttir
Screenplay by: Óskar Jónasson
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Sigurður Sverrir Pálsson
Film Editing by: Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Costume Design by: Sigrún Andersen, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson
Music by: Sigurjón Kjartansson
Distributed by: Skífan (Iceland)
Release Date: October 20, 1993
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