Northern Comfort: Icelandic-British comedy in which a group of people with a chronic fear of flying become stranded in wintry Reykjavík.
plot and background
Contractor Sarah (Lydia Leonard) has everything perfectly under control. Only one small detail the ambitious London career woman conceals from everyone. She suffers from an uncontrollable fear of flying. When her new boyfriend plans a joint plane trip, Sarah decides it’s time to overcome her panic. On the off chance, she secretly attends a training course that is supposed to help her. But after the theory part comes the acid test, and before Sarah knows it, she’s on a plane to Reykjavík with the inexperienced course instructor (Simon Manyonda) and a motley crew of fellow sufferers. There’s a desperate war veteran (Timothy Spall), for example, and a headstrong insensitive influencer (Ella Rumpf) who doesn’t actually have any problems with flying and merely boards as emotional support for her frightened friend Alfons (Sverrir Guðnason). But even before the plane is in the air, things get out of hand and it quickly becomes clear that this will not be a trip like any other.
The official trailer for “Fearless Flyers” promises a chaos comedy between foggy London, the claustrophobic airplane cabin and the snowy wasteland of Reykjavík:
“Fearless Flyers” – background, cast, theatrical release
Icelandic filmmaker Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðssons (“Under The Tree”) brings a high-profile and internationally cast black comedy to theaters with “Fearless Flyers.” Lydia Leonard (“Archipelago”), Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew from “Harry Potter”), Sverrir Guðnason (“Conspiracy”) and Ella Rumpf (“Raw”) shine as angst-ridden wild-eyed students who have to learn the hard way that sometimes you have to let go together in order to take off.
The humorously absurd comedy “Fearless Flyers” opens in theaters here on October 12, 2023.
