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On Top Down Under

  • 2002
  • 26m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
183
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Nina Gunnarsdottir and Hilmir Snær Guðnason in On Top Down Under (2002)
Short

On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Aust... Read allOn Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the... Read allOn Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dia... Read all

  • Director
    • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
  • Writer
    • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
  • Stars
    • Nina Gunnarsdottir
    • Hilmir Snær Guðnason
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    183
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    • Director
      • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
    • Writer
      • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
    • Stars
      • Nina Gunnarsdottir
      • Hilmir Snær Guðnason
    • 3User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Nina Gunnarsdottir
    • The Woman
    • (as Nina Gunnarsdóttir)
    Hilmir Snær Guðnason
    Hilmir Snær Guðnason
    • The Man
    • (as Hilmir Snær Gudnason)
    • Director
      • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
    • Writer
      • Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
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    8raymond-15

    Interesting approach

    An erotic tale with a difference. Set in Icelandic wastelands and Australian outback, a man and a woman...two people thousands of miles apart who will never know each other. Both seek answers to their lonely existence. The contrasting scenes of the bitter northern snows and the southern red thirsty dusty earth make very interesting viewing.

    The woman snaps a long icicle hanging from an eave and sets about sucking the end thus fashioning it into the shape of a male member. She masturbates gently with this long rod, water dripping from her hot body.The photography is worth noting. The back-lighting on the transparent icicle is beautiful.

    At this very moment the man in Australia is standing naked on blocks of ice carefully arranged below his feet, his neck entwined by a noose hanging from the rafter of his lonely homestead. Again we get the drip..drip...drip of the water from the ice until his feet are left swinging.

    Not a happy film to be sure, but it is one endowed with beauty in every scene. It's an ingenious script, not to be analysed too closely and yet offering many interpretations. It is a visual experience. No dialogue. Worth watching for its original settings and icy close-ups.
    8TheMagpie

    An Erotic Tale Which Is Actually Erotic

    The problem with most short movies that come out under the title "Erotic Tale" is that they aren't really erotic with the thought is that some flesh and a sex scene makes it erotic. This one is an exception.

    The tale tells of two lovers separated by nearly the whole globe (she a lighthouse keeper in remote Iceland, he a worker in outback Australia) who remember back to a time when they made love in a hot spring in Iceland.

    The contrasting stories of what their memory of that day drives them to is as contrasting as the locations they are now in. The hot vs the cold, the day vs the night, light vs dark, but both bound by a desire for that day in the hot spring.

    This tale is not only well filmed, and well scripted (the lack of dialogue helps the story), but provides sensuality and desire, a potent combination with regards to eroticism.

    This story is truly deserving of the title "Erotic Tale".

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      Title card: Pollow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

      Title card: To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

      Title card: Awake for ever in a sweet unrest

      Title card: Still, still to hear her tender-take breath,

      Title card: And so live ever âˆ' or else swoon to death.

      Title card: - Keats

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 31, 2002 (Canada)
    • Countries of origin
      • Iceland
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • On Top Down Under on Vimeo
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Erotic Tales: On Top Down Under
    • Filming locations
      • Australia
    • Production company
      • Ziegler Film & Company
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    • Runtime
      • 26m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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