Jar City is a detective story, and a very good one...set in a tightly knit community where everyone seems to knows more about each others business than is comfortable, a determined and morally strong cop dispenses his duties by interacting with morally weak and often psychically disturbed locals - while all the time trying to prevent his adult daughter from falling prey to the same dark forces that have dragged these people down into the mire.
A murdered man's house is built on a swamp and the nausea inducing stink greeting the investigating police acts as a metaphor for the moral stink emanating from rotting components of the island community. Something intangibly nasty seems to pervade even the weather beaten geography that the policeman’s Land Rover constantly criss-crosses, as if starring in a bleak Icelandic version of Top Gear.
Filmed and edited with real style, the twists and turns of the plot create a beautifully crafted, ever tightening knot, right from the opening scene – which happens to be one of the most emotionally gut wrenching film sequences I can remember watching.
Thursday 4 March, 7.30pm, tickets £5,
The Gipsy Hill Tavern, 79 Gipsy Hill, London, SE19 1QH.
See their website for full details, reviews and the trailer.
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