Released at SXSW, the new black comedy signed by Icelandic script writer-director, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Northern Comfort tries to be a film about the state of the world, a satire of the upper classes whose gaze towards the phenomenon of flight phobia is at times empathetic, at others condescending. The film’s premise is a fruitful one: a special forces veteran turned bestselling writer, a real estate developer, and an introverted IT worker accompanied by his influencer girlfriend participate in a costly flight course that has the pseudo-motivational title of “Fearless Flyers”, taught by an enthusiastic, yet incompetent instructor, whose final test consist in taking a flight from the UK to Iceland.

Ramona Aristide

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Film critic. She graduated from Filmology at UNATC. She writes and sometimes moderates discussions.

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