The movie deals with grief and how people deal with personal grief. From Atli's masturbation to Inga's revenge, the movie deals with every main character's grief. The movie had a spectacular background score providing the dark mood, and decent cinematography. All the lead actors have done a great job, but personally felt that Sigurður Sigurjónsson as Baldvin was bit over the top, or he was asked to be so. The script was decent and direction was also pretty good, but could have been better - as the overall end product seemed a bit dull though, some dynamic interesting moments are there for sure (like the residents complaining on a couple's loud sex noises at night).

"Under the Tree" revamps Shakespearean motifs and incorporates them into a gritty yet whimsical modern tale of rivalry and revenge. I don't know how to feel about the film -- and when I say that I'm actually talking about my emotions, not the value of the movie. "Under the Tree" is a tremendous piece of cinema, and the mixture of emotions that come with it make it even more masterful. Dark, ironic, occasionally hilarious yet disturbing, this film will leave you just as bewildered as it will satisfied.

Incredible! So many emotions and beautifully made.

When do you know a movie is good? For me is when it has so many capes that you need to watch more than one time to discover it's secret. Just like the best stories.I just finished watching this film at the Biennale and after more than 5 minutes of applause, I realized that it might be close to be a masterpiece.Gunnar Sigurdsson has presented a conflict (This is the best way of describing it) which takes many lifes and goes in different directions. But at the end of the film gets interconnected just as human life. And just as mankind is fragile, every decision we make is just that.This movie is a great analysis not only of human emotions and mindset, but of the world today. And how while we fight over the shadow of the tree, we don't realize that there might be someone wandering who doesn't want to take part and who is fighting his own war.

Hafsteinn Sigurðsson's film begins as a trifling neighborhood dispute about an overgrown shade tree and ends as a violent tug-of-war with alarmingly high stakes.

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

The tone is deliberately odd ... blending the naturalism of the day-to-day emotions of relationships and grief, with the altogether more heightened tensions of a revenge thriller, while still keeping a cheeky eye on the absurdity of a mooning garden gnome

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

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.