Icelandic Connection ~ Eternal Sunshine
Valdís Óskarsdóttir
You’re the man now, dog!
Did you know the editor of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) was from Iceland? Her name is Valdís Óskarsdóttir and among movies she has edited are Vinterberg’s Festen (1998), Anders Thomas Jensen’s Mifunes sidste sang (1999), Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester (2000) (yeah the one with. “You’re the man now, dog!”). and Sergey Bodrov’s amazing movie, Mongol (2007).
In 2005 she won the “BAFTAS” for film editing for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. She has also won several awards for editing movies like Festen, Mifunes Sidste sang and Sveitabrúðkaup to name a few.
In 2008 she wrote and directed Sveitabrúðkaup, a low key Icelandic movie about a wedding in the countryside that goes from bad to worse. The cool thing about that movie is that the movie was filmed in seven days with four cameras. The cinematographer was the amazing Oscar winning Anthony Dod Mantle who went from shooting Sveitabrúðkaup straight to working with Danny Boyle making Slumdog Millionare (2008).
Lately, Valdís has been focusing on writing and directing her own movies here in Iceland but she still remains as one of the powerhouses in Icelandic film making scene and is without a doubt the best editor this dinky little island has ever produced.
So for your coctail party you need to know this.
She’s icelandic (it’s important). She rescued Michel Gondry’s Ethernal Sunshine (lets face it, he’s genius but his movies are a bit of a mess). She has worked with brilliand and amazing directors. You can’t discuss Dogma 95 without acknowledging her work and she has worked with Anthony Dod Mantle many times.
Enough said, and thank you for reading this mess.
Websites
Valdís Óskarsdóttir ~ Official Site
Valdís Óskarsdóttir ~ IMDB
Valdís Óskarsdóttir ~ Wikipedia
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