In the circumstances, the boy is the pragmatic one, accepting his fate with glee and a smorgasbord of multiple choices. ![]() If it’s a plague, where are the bodies? If it’s an alien invasion, what happened to the space ships? In the 90 minutes that follow, bewilderment and confusion morph into fear and a feeling of uneasy isolation, then a mixture of resignation and eventual despair. On their laptop computer, no emails, posts or texts of any kind from anyone. From their cell phones, they try to make some calls. The deserted streets and sidewalks are the same powder blue as the pastel sky above them-as stark as an X-ray. For the rest of this unique and imaginative film, they try to make sense of what happened-to them and to the rest of the world as they knew it. Riley and Jenai, a young American couple on vacation in Iceland wake up one morning and discover, to their horror, they are the last two living people on Earth. In Bokeh, the spectacular scenery provides a perfect pastoral backdrop for an unsettling dramatic premise. This is a land of frozen green meadows, icy gorges, rustic country churches and gushing waterfalls. I’ve never seen anything of Iceland beyond the Reykjavik airport, but when you see this movie, opening this week in limited cinemas and on the internet, you will be forced to agree-we’ve all been missing something. Starring: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary and Arnar Jónsson ![]() Written and directed by: Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan And so it is with a neat, low-budget surprise called Bokeh, from-of all places-Iceland! Yes, that country has a film industry, although it, too, is minuscule, but with this film as evidence, quite capable of producing movies that are fascinating, valid, and off the beaten track. Sometimes the best things come in small packages: truffles, painkillers, diamond rings.
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