40) Heima
Director: Dean DeBlois
Year: 2007
Plot Summary: In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland.
Heima is as simple a music documentary as you will ever come across. It's 90 minutes of live performances from the different towns that Sigur Ros played in during their 2006 Icelandic tour. However, through the interviews with the band members and the beautiful film-making from Dean DeBlois, it somehow excels this simple concept and become a mesmerising cinematic love letter to Iceland. The stark landscapes, the quiet communities, the spiritual people, the beautiful calm and just how removed it is from everywhere else in terms of both it's geography and lifestyle become more and more apparent as Sigur Ros tour Iceland. In fact, it's so staggeringly beautiful that it inspired me to go to Iceland myself last year!However, it's also a celebration of the band's incredible music. The atmosphere and tone is perfect in capturing their unique sound, the live performances are absolutely spectacular and it portrays just how talented the members are. As well as their one-of-a-kind style of music though, you also get an insight into the fact that the members are so unlike the usual rock stars in today's music industry. They're quiet, shy, ordinary people who just love the art of making music and are very proud Icelanders. There's no moving to Hollywood for Sigur Ros.
A magical documentary which brings Sigur Ros' amazing music to the screen and is a loving tribute to one of the most fascinating places on Earth.
4/5
I love Sigur Ros to death. A very competent documentary for them.