The Ice Storm (1997) by Ang Lee.
“It’s a film by Ang Lee, by far his best film I think. It’s about how parents behave like children. It’s fantastic, it’’s just so true and it doesn’t shy away from anything. They remade the movie after that, American Beauty -to me a cheap version of it.” Synopsis: It is Thanksgiving 1973, and the Carvers and the Hoods are two prototypical suburban families seemingly living the good life in New Canaan, Connecticut. Behind their New Age philosophies and polyester fashions, however, lies deep discontent. One husband carries on an unsatisfying affair with the other family’s wife, while his teenage daughter experiments sexually with both of the neighbor’s boys. When a winter storm descends upon their upper middle class neighborhood, buried resentments bubble over, leading to a tragedy neither family will ever forget… Based on the novel by Rick Moody, The Ice Storm stars Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood.
Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor and a stage and film director. Nowadays he is best known for his work as a director of films like multi-awarded 101 Reykjavik. Also a producer through his production company, BlueEyes, (he co-produced Stormy Weather by Solveig Anspach for instance), Baltasar Kormakur has just finished his fifth feature-length film, White Night Wedding, while Jar City has just been released in French theaters.
Read our interview with Baltasar Kormakur on the occasion of the French theatrical release of Jar City.