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The words “away with the fairies” tend to be used pejoratively, though if you applied it to Ragnhildur “Ragga” Jónsdóttir, she’d calmly and cheerfully accept at least part of the phrase. It’s the “away” bit to which she’d object: In Jónsdóttir’s view, she’s very much present with the elves, trolls and sprites who make up Iceland’s apparently vast population of folkloric huldufólk (hidden people), and acts as a vital intermediary between these creatures and her human cohorts who neither see nor believe in them. As the heroine of Sara Dosa’s sprightly, surprising character portrait “The Seer and the Unseen,” this alleged elf whisperer makes for a highly unusual documentary subject and storyteller, at once wholly, earnestly truthful and questionable in her convictions.
That conflicting combination makes Jónsdóttir vulnerable to careless film treatment: It’s easy to see how a director could err on...
That conflicting combination makes Jónsdóttir vulnerable to careless film treatment: It’s easy to see how a director could err on...
- 4/29/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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