This is a cracking film, though the good people of the Icelandic tourist board may be holding their heads in their hands.

A remarkable writer-director gifted with razor-sharp wit and an uncanny grasp of human foibles, Sigurðsson is the best approximation to a 21st century Billy Wilder that contemporary cinema has to offer.

It's a striking, if slightly silly, curio from the writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson: 85 minutes of Bergman-lite topped off with five minutes of Tarantino.

At a time where catharsis increasingly takes precedent over progress, Under the Tree has become essential.