”Pamela Anderson’s appearance in this sombre documentary on hunting in the Faroe Islands is almost the least surreal thing in it”, says The Guardian’s notoriously hard-to-please – but also more often than not fair – film critic Peter Bradshaw, who has rated Mike Day’s documentary ”The Islands and the Whales” three stars out of five, pointing out that ”it’s a very good-looking film, with lovely images.”
Bradshaw refers to the documentary as a ”sombre, poignant, almost funereal film about a growing crisis in the way of life being pursued in that wild and beautiful archipelago 200 miles off the coast of Scotland.”
Bradshaw also emphasizes that he ”sometimes wonders if a narrative voiceover (very unfashionable in documentary film-making) could have made the issues at stake clearer, and given an informative guide to the community festival at the end”.
