Download or read book Dagur Kári's Noi the Albino written by Björn Nordfjörd and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino (Noi Albínoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal, tapping into perennial themes of teenage angst and escapism against an almost surreal backdrop Icelandic scenery. Bjorn Nordfjord considers the film's successful negotiation of the tensions between the local and the global.