Dagur Kari's follow-up to the curious and appealing indie debut Noi Albinoi is every bit as quirky but less distinctive, partly because the setting has moved from snowy Iceland to a dreary part of Copenhagen. This is the kind of oddball, plot-free slacker comedy that some will regard as impossibly whimsical but others, perhaps with the assistance of some kind of relaxing stimulant, will find winningly silly.

My reactions were somewhere in the middle: Kari isn't quite as good at this sort of thing as the deadpan Finn Aki Kaurismaki, but how often do you get the chance to see Kaurismaki these days? Overall, it's enjoyable enough to watch but swiftly forgotten, but once in a while Kari comes up with an inspired oddball idea, like the troop of elephants that trundles past the window of a cafe in which our lead characters are having a conversation. Nobody mentions or sees them and there's no payoff whatsoever, which is a lot funnier than if there had been. Kari also gives us three seconds of glowing colour in an otherwise all-mono film. But it's never quite as much fun as Kari's aim - to produce a film which looks like an episode of Seinfeld directed by Kieslowski.