Ducks at Dusk

The Tjörn (cognate with 'tarn') is a large ornamental - insofar as Iceland may be said to contain ornament - lake in the middle of Reykjavik, which exists mostly in order to provide the politicians in the Raðhús something to look at from their windows. It attracts a large number of ducks and geese of various sorts. At dusk they look quite picturesque.


Also looking out onto the Tjörn is the Tjarnarbío, a cinema which has been the focal point of last week's Film Festival. I saw some good films, mostly with the word 'Road' in their titles (Red Road, The Road To Guantánamo). I saw some middling films, such as Keane (although the main actor was amazingly good), and a documentary about the wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst, which was as interesting as you might think a film on such a subject would be.

In honour of the Reykjavík International Film Festival, here is a rough cut of my duck photo.