Review: ‘Under the Tree’ is a compelling Icelandic thriller

Director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, who wrote the film with Huldar Breidfjord, does a splendid job of establishing a rising sense of cognitive dissonance as snippy comments give way to petty cruelties that eventually escalate to an absolute breakdown of social order - all set against a Danish-modern backdrop of subdued discretion and quietly impeccable taste.