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This was a real decent thriller. I watched two subtitle films today Julia's Eyes (was ok) and this one, which came together at the end really well. A good solid ghost story, that has right build to give the audience a reason to watch to the end. If you like subtitles films, and the language of Iceland, then I highly recommend this ghost story. You will not be disappointed .

The plot/story is based on Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's mystery novel, and so it has aspects of a good mystery and a ghost story. The screenwriters and the actors did a great job, and I didn't mind having to read the subtitles. Although, I did have to pay close attention throughout the whole film in order to understand the plot, which contains layers of complexity. In the end, it paid off because there are some very eerie, creepy scenes.

If you require a lot of blood and gore, then this may not be your kind of film. But if you enjoy good ghost stories with past history tied to the plot, then I definitely recommend it. "Chilly" might be a good word to describe the atmosphere of the film, not only because of the supernatural material but also because the Icelandic countryside looks quite chilly and remote.

Again, kudos go to all of the people who helped to make this film. I look forward to seeing future work from the director, Óskar Thór Axelsson.

You may watch it once with low hopes. Starts really well but loses steam along the way. The plot is unique and yet not convincing enough. It is definitely worth a watch.

It has beautiful scenery in locations seldom seen on film, but the story is too loose to develop any real tension. There's one effective jump scare, but that's it. And the confusing parallel timeline structure doesn't add anything to the drama. Best avoided.

I wouldn't say I Remember You is a bad movie, not at all actually, but it's probably not a movie I will watch a second time though, and that's why I just gave it a 6 out of 10. From a 7 are the movies I would watch again. The story is not bad, with enough mystery to keep you interested, but it is just a bit too slow and there are a couple things that could have used more explanation. The cast was good. I didn't know any of them and that's not a surprise since Icelandic movies are not the most common and popular, but that doesn't mean there are no good actors there. The setting is everything you expect when you think about Iceland, not much else to see than bare lands, mountains and lakes, and a cold winter atmosphere. It's all well shot. The movie is worth a watch, but to me it could have used a bit more action and horror.

I enjoyed the relaxed pace of the first half, but felt the second half just didn't deliver anything of any significance. All in all, a rather weak ghost story, populated with characters I couldn't care about.

The synopsis here on IMDb is not quite accurate. There are actually 2 stories happening here, and how they connect is revealed slowly, with perfect timing and a suspenseful buildup.

The first story concerns the town doctor, who is helping the police with an investigation of a woman who has died. His character spend the entire film teetering between trying to figure out this town's dark past and how it connects to some recent and frightening events, and trying to live with the torment of the loss of his son, who went missing some years earlier.

The other story is about a married couple (and her best friend) who are in town to convert an old, disused building into a bed & breakfast. There are some personal issues between the three, but the most interesting character by far is the wife. She's also experienced some trauma in her past, and it is she who suffers the strange events that happen in this story. None of what happens to her is ever seen by her husband or her friend, so we don't really know if it's real or imagined.

The town's current crimes, the renovation of the b&b, how the two narratives cross paths is revealed slowly, with suspense and satisfying scares, and is done exceedingly well.

The actors' performances were well done; not a stinker among them. And the landscape is perfect for such a tale. Desolate, cold, isolated...not just in miles, but in connection with the outside world (for example, difficulty in getting a cell phone signal). There are no cheap shots, no stunt scares. A beautiful soundtrack and gorgeous cinematography are icing on the cake of this thriller.

This movie has a lot going for it. It has some truly creepy moments, very solid acting on everyone's part, moments of good scoring (despite some cliched choral passages), and a promising story line.

Unfortunately, for reasons I cannot understand, about two-thirds of the way through the script introduces a cliched, hackneyed domestic melodrama plot line which, while it does thematically connect with other aspects of the story, could have been dispensed with in favor of something less predictable and inane. I'm avoiding going into detail because I don't want to drop spoilers in case you decide to watch this movie. I myself have little patience for scripts that are inconsistent and which suffer under choices which the writer should have known were bad ones. The conclusion, while apropos of the story that precedes it, is also something we have seen time and time again in similar movies. It's frustrating to see what could have been and memorable movie become ultimately rather forgettable.

If you're hard up for a ghost story flick and you've seen everything else out there, I Remember You is probably worth a look, but it's not one that's going to be on my own re-watch list; which, for the sake of context, does include the likes of Ringu, The Ring, The Grudge (Japanese), Dark Water (Japanese), The Fog (original), The Haunting (original), The Innocents, Pulse and Retribution (both Kioshi Kurosawa), and the number of others that I watch repeatedly because they avoid most of the mistakes made by I Remember You.

I liked this film. It was dark, moody, atmospheric and with a few effective jump scares. Unlike many films of this genre, this one was practically bloodless. The movie was well photographed, too, capturing the bleak and unforgiving landscape that is the northern frontier.

My issue, and why I didn't rate it higher? You've seen everything in this film before. I couldn't help but notice there was cliche after cliche in this offering. Hell, this movie could've shot in rural New York, Washington, London and there wouldn't be any stylistic difference. I fear that I'll forget about this flick two days from now, and that's a bad thing. They tried, though. There is that.

A psychiatrist follows a trail of sudden deaths while recovering from the trauma of the disappearance of his young son.

Police procedural meets the unquiet grave of a child. This is pretty much Ringu territory - at least the American remake - but without the lavish set piece scenes and searing menace. There is a disjunction in time revealed late on, which makes you rethink the story, but not by much as there's not a lot to explain. And if you've twigged the early appearance of an unusual object, the second reveal is no surprise.

The production values are fine, nothing to complain about. Flashbacks to vintage times in digital black and white are not convincing, but the volcanic eruption was spectacular.

Overall: More ghostly than horrifying, and nothing original.

Ps. The credits make a good job of thanking the entire population of Iceland by name.

This could have been better but still it's a good story (not convincing enough though) with a few jump scares.

As we have become accustomed to the American horror movie formula (since its main rivals, the British, Italian, Mexican and Japanese film industries have almost abandoned the genre), it becomes obvious, when we are confronted by a different horror movie, that today most of this genre productions look like long advertising spots, with commercial aesthetics and style, that promote, I don't know, ketchup, green sauces, make-ups, visual effects software, whatever but true horror.

While watching this Icelandic film, I remembered what happened to a similar movie, «I Am the Beautiful Thing That Lives in the House", a Canadian production that was misunderstood, maligned and unjustly underrated. Both works address a favorite conflict in horror motion pictures, stories and myths: that of the spirits that seek peace, after violent deaths or when their bodies have not been found. In «Pretty Thing», a nurse is haunted by the specter of a beautiful young woman who was killed by her groom. In «I Remember You», we find two children who were mistreated and mocked by their peers and suddenly were missing. These stories frequently reflect on the sense of responsibility or guilt felt by those who remain alive when someone close dies, in whose deaths they were somehow involved. Their responsibility or guilt take the form of ghosts that generally only they can see and "free" them from the attachment to this plane of existence.

Based on a novel by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Reykjavik, 1963), an Icelandic author specializing in two genres perhaps antagonistic (crime novels and children's books ...), «I Remember You» involves complex characters and biographies full of ungrateful incidents, from the psychiatrist who has never been able to locate the body of his missing son, to the man and two women trying to open a hostel on an abandoned island, without knowing that they are in the house with a horrific past. One of the missing children is somehow connected to the strange mutilations and deaths of elders who seem to be part of a sect and, above all, with the psychiatrist's son.

The evolution of the drama is always interesting, the performances and the cinematography of Jakob Ingimundarson are all good, and there is no lack of tension and a couple of scares, but here we do not find the primary, ancestral and classic horror so dear to the British Hammer films, to the Italian horror master Mario Bava or to the Mexican studios Churubusco Azteca, but a more adult and contemporary approach to horror. «I Remember You» has enough merits to enjoy an evening of good genre cinema in its of 21st century version. See it.

'I Remember You' failed to keep me locked in. It ends up being a fairly decent story, I just can't say that I had a positive time seeing it unfold. It isn't anything out and out bad, admittedly. I was into any scene with Freyr and Dagný, those two held together any interest that I did have.

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson and Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir are, therefore, the ones who merit praise from this 2017 release, especially Jóhannesson. Alternatively, I found the parts with Garðar, Katrín and Líf to be less watchable; again not bad, especially as the actors are alright.

Not far adrift from being something good. That it is not, though.

A very moody film, that cuts back and forth between two storylines. And that makes it really interesting. Also the location of the one storyline is really setting the mood. While there are phantastical elements to it, I would argue that this is more of a thriller, rather than straight horror. But it does have quite a few "jump scares" and you might feel frighten from time to time.

If that sounds intriguing, believe me it is. It is also very well made. The acting is great, the script will keep you guessing what will come next and there are enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat ... maybe even after the movie is over. The guessing part of it all is what makes it work the first time around. I haven't seen it a second time, but I'm sure there are things to discover and enjoy then too

Although people may approach it seeking a horror film, and despite having some paranormal elements to it, the movie is mostly a missing persons mystery. The film weaves two "main" storylines as well as two missing persons cases deftly into a film that culminates into a single picture in the end.

The characters are not really fleshed out more than they have to, which is a good thing, and the actors do a pretty good job bringing the characters to life, especially the psychiatrist.

There weren't much jump scares or purely horror scenes, and what little "scary" scenes did show up added to the atmosphere and mystery, and made sense to the plot and eventual background "mythology" of the movie. As such, this movie should be fine for people who aren't really into horror movies, if they can handle a pinch of supernatural as a part of the mythology instead it being intended purely for horror purposes.

The movie was pretty focused on the main story, and there weren't much side stories or unnecessary relationships, violence, intimate scenes, or anything that really distracted from the story for the sake of sensational viewing. The pacing was slow but steady. To be honest, it was so slow and steady that was almost beginning to suspect that the film would have disappointing ending, due to the relatively nonfluctuating levels of emotion or suspense. However, despite the the ending indeed being technically anticlimactic, I think it was indeed satisfying, resolving the main mysteries while still leaving room for thought and reflection.

I would definitely recommend this movie for anyone who likes mystery, and don't mind a teaspoon of spook in that.

You know a film is good when you forget you are reading subtitles. I remember you is quite scary, very intriguing and very moving. Well acted and produced it left me wondering how everything tied in together right to the very end.