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A film by Katrín Ólafsdóttir

"Perhaps I'm already dead," says the little boy at one point in Katrin Ólafsdóttir's The Wind Blew On, to himself or someone else,
but these words are spoken in a world where no one can confirm this for him either way. He is on a journey, alone and with others,
things having strayed from their course without anyone knowing why.

The unsettling landscapes he makes his way through, real and imaginary; the ruins he plays among and the enigmatic figures he
encounters there, threatening and weleoming in turn, who teach him how to become who he is; the half remembered fragments
of the past that somehow return to him: The Wind Blew On shows us scenes of a life lived after the end of the world has taken
place, and the search for an escape from this fate.


‘The Wind Blew On’ is a wild coming-of-age fantasy movie about a boy on a quest. His journey across the austere landscape of the
desert is seasoned with surreal encounters. Reality clouds over. While the boy is possibly searching for a myth - in fact the story of
humanity - and whereas he is about to give up, a forest appears in front of him. Just like we need dreams in order to live, the
fulfillment of dreams can be a thing of horror.

‘The Wind Blew On’ has been filmed in fragments over eight years with an assembly of professional and non professional actors,
some entering the film as part characters, part themselves. The protagonist, that we observe growing up and that provides the
prism through which the story is viewed, goes grows from ten to twenty years old. Shot on location in Iceland and Spain, specifically
in Almeria, the home of the Spaghetti Western, this otherworldly sci-fi is as much post-apocalyptic as it is mystical.


Erscheint 2023


https://thewindblewon.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6768364/