Corrie Film Club

As well as this month’s Day in the Dark event, Corrie Film club will be holding a usual film night on Sunday 12th February. The film that will be showing is Lamb (Iceland 2021. Valdemar Johannsson. 106 mins. Cert 15), in the Corrie and Sannox village hall, at 7.30pm.

In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to rear it as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.

In a review from December 2021 in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw writes:

Maria (Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Guðnason) are an unhappy couple with a remote farm in Iceland: it gradually becomes clear they have lost their only child. The drama begins with a strange spirit-visitation in the barn that scares the animals: a ewe becomes pregnant with a bizarre animal-human hybrid and poor, stricken Maria (her name’s importance is left for us to digest) conceives a passionate attachment to this precious being, naming it Ada after her dead human daughter.

Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson makes a coolly outrageous feature debut with this jawdropping horror-comedy of loneliness, co-written by Jóhannsson with the lyricist and Björk collaborator Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, or Sjón. It is performed with unflinching commitment by its executive producer-star Noomi Rapace, who is first among equals in a great cast of humans, animals and various prosthetic and digital creature effects.