There’s never been a movie slacker quite as lazy and ineffectual as stubble-faced, cherubic-faced Hlynur — the supremely irresponsible protagonist of Baltasar Kormakur’s prize-winning Icelandic comedy ...

“What is it you do in life?” Lola asks Hlynur. “Nothing.” “What kind of nothing?” “The nothing kind of nothing.” Hlynur is not exaggerating. The protagonist of “101 Reykjavik,” possibly the first and ...

Iceland, Denmark, Norway and France (France ... what's it doing in these frigid latitudes?) coproduced this slacker comedy set in Reykjavik (101 is the zip code). Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) is a ...

He’s jammed with tribesmen in west Africa. He’s masqueraded as a cartoon reggae-hop pop star. Now, he’s teamed up with pop eccentric Einar Örn Benediktsson to score a soundtrack for Icelandic yoof ...

We were overjoyed to be asked, at the end of another long British winter, to review a slick new coastal hotel. Immediately we thought of alfresco dining and chirping cicadas. We were not expecting to ...

A central Reykjavik hotel, the 101 Hotel is next to the city's official buildings and the Icelandic opera house. The exterior is classic Icelandic design, but inside it's all about refined elegance ...