Videodroom welcomes Icelandic indiepop experimentalists mùm to rescore the quietly beautiful Canadian cult classic ‘La Vie Revée’. They will be joined on stage by a long time friend; composer and celliste Hildur Guðnadóttir.
After starting a new job at a local film production company, Isabelle (Liliane Lemaître-Auger) befriends animator Virginie (Véronique Le Flaguais). As the two young women navigate love, work, politics, and the endless search for the perfect partner, they gradually discover that reality rarely lives up to fantasy. Set during a sun-drenched Montreal summer, La vie rêvée is a tender portrait of female friendship and youthful idealism.
Rather than following a conventional plot, director Mireille Dansereau captures a particular time and place with remarkable warmth and intimacy. Shot on grainy 16mm, the film has the texture of a home movie, while its playful, collage-like editing blurs the boundaries between dreams and everyday life. Often compared to the work of Agnès Varda, La vie rêvée is both a landmark of Canadian cinema—the first feature directed by a woman in Quebec—and a long-overlooked gem ready to be rediscovered.
Few bands are better suited to its delicate atmosphere than múm. Since emerging from Reykjavík in the late 1990s, the ever-evolving collective has crafted a singular sound world where gentle melodies, fragile vocals, glitch electronics, found sounds, and acoustic instruments coexist in perfect balance. Across six acclaimed albums, numerous collaborations, and film and theatre scores, múm has become one of Iceland's most beloved and influential musical acts.
For this special performance, the band is joined by acclaimed composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, whose longstanding artistic relationship with múm dates back to the group's early years. Since then, Guðnadóttir has become one of contemporary cinema's most celebrated composers, earning Academy, Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for her scores to Joker and Chernobyl, alongside acclaimed work for films including TÁR and Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
Created exclusively for Videodroom, this unique performance brings together one of Iceland's most adventurous bands, one of today's leading film composers, and a quietly extraordinary film that deserves to be experienced anew.
