The best concert films achieve a marriage of sound and image that feels effortlessly harmonious, and in that regard Inni, a musical portrait of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, leaves most of its genre in the dust.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is the perfect film for a band that was never trying to be something other than inventive.
Whereas 2007's well-traveled "Heima" reveled in scenic color imagery of the artists' homeland, this minimalist item strips the band down to its output, fashioning black-and-white performance footage into a uniquely spellbinding experience.
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Slant MagazineJesse Cataldo
Slant MagazineJesse Cataldo
As a document of a live show it looks like nothing else, but Vincent Morisset's greater aspirations, attempts to define or sum up the band through the inclusion of external material, come off as muddled and oblique.
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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
The result is a hazy, shoegazy visual tone that is both elegiac and eulogistic - that is, at once meditative and funereal.