Under The Tree

"What the film occasionally lacks in human finesse, it makes up for in sheer anything-goes resolve."

"Maintaining an unrelentingly gleeful grip on the film's tone, Mr. Sigurdsson skillfully whips absurdist comedy and chilling tragedy into a froth of surging hostilities."

"Unsettlingly perceptive as well as absurdly comedic, Under the Tree chronicles domestic tensions left to fester; when grudges branch out like a leafy tree in a suburban backyard, everyone suffers."

"Under the Tree may be a demonstration of Sayre's law, but Sigurðsson doesn't reduce his characters to faceless suburbanites, ripe for the skewering. Their misdeeds are chillingly relatable."

"A blacker than black comedy that is so savage you often don't know whether to shudder or laugh."

"Each character resonates as a problematic individual whose foolishness escalates first into drama, then tragedy."