This is a sweet movie. The backdrop is the beautiful landscape of Iceland along with the bond between Sigga and her three friends. She has chosen to go to California and her friends take her to the airport to be her protectors, one with his canoe. Though it doesn't appear to be a great distance, they have adventures and meet different characters and perhaps find some degrees of love. It was sort of a reverse Wizard of Oz, with Sigga being aware of how fortunate she is at home, but wanting to try a new thing. At first she has perhaps not thought it fully through and thus hesitates until she learns what it is she wants from the journey, which is not a departure but an adventure. Her friends also come to an understanding of things they want as well. Though it has some of the tropes of a coming of age movie, it felt like it was reaching more towards myth than angst.
Review of Iceland Is Best
