Cold Fever

From the director who put Icelandic cinema on the map with his charming, slightly loopy fable, CHILDREN OF NATURE, COLD FEVER feels like a Jim Jarmusch road movie transplanted to the frozen north. Masatoshi Nagase, memorable as the Japanese rockabilly fanatic in Jarmusch's MYSTERY TRAIN, is a game (if frequently puzzled) salaryman on a spiritual trek through Iceland's primeval landscape. Two parts Northern Exposure to one part Dante, it's beautifully photographed and subtle, maybe to a fault.