Bye Bye Bluebird

• Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir: Rannvá
• Sigri Mitra gaini: Barba
• Johan Dalsgaard: Rúni
• Elin K. Mouritsen: Barba 's mother
• Peter Hesse Overgaard: Rannvá 's stepfather
• Nora Bærentsen: Rannvá 's mother
• Egi Dam: Rannvá 's father
• Lovisa Køtlum Petersen: Rannvá 's daughter
• Adelborg Linklett: Rannvá 's grandmother
• Sverri Egholm: Rannvá 's grandfather
• Birita Mohr: Waitress / Singer
• Sigurd Solstein: Smukke
• Høgni Johansen: Helmsman
• Kári Øster: Hærget Mand
• Anna Kristin Bæk: Blafferpige
• Kári Solstein: Groom
• Gunnvá Zachariasen: Bride

Bye Bye Bluebird ( abbreviation: BBBB ) is the first Faroese road movie and was premiered in 1999.

Description

" Small islands are simply not made for humans, only birds that can fly again"

The girlfriends Rannvá and Barba - both models and mid-twenties - return after several years abroad returned to the Faroe Islands. With their fabulous presentation ( colorful hair and fancy clothes ) and their " continental attitude " they fall into the conformist and tradition-conscious island society from the frame. When you login in the hotel they initially posing as French women. Are they still Färingerinnen?

Actually Rannvá and Barba wanted to clarify family matters, but now they embark on a journey to the self and its roots. The fisherman Rúni takes her in his old Ford Granada, the congenial fit with its interior fittings (covers in zebra design, stuffed crocodile on the parcel shelf and the like) appearance of the two girls. Rúni " saves" them with it, and on their way to the northern islands, they meet all sorts of " extremely strange " people.

Bye Bye Bluebird is also a landscape film about the Faroe Islands. He tried a search for identity between tradition and modernity, growing up and family ties. Critics describe him as a serious, credible, melodramatic and satirical. The filmmakers have oriented her about Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, and Hal Hartley.

On the question of how one can turn a road movie on a archipelago which has just 1000 km road network, responds Katrin Ottarsdóttir:

"Yes, that seems to be impossible - but still. The car acts as the universe. Where the tour is over and the car no longer provides the framework, they have [ Rúni and the young women ] not much more to say. I can well suffer. "

Awards

• Grand Prize Nordic Film Days, Lübeck 1999
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg, 1999
• Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2000
• Audience Award and Award of the Youth Jury Festival du cinéma nordique, Rouen 2000