MOVIE REVIEWS

THE DISAPPEARANCE

OF FINBAR1/2Running time: 103 minutes. Not rated. At the Screening Room, Canal and Varick streets.

‘THE Disappearance of Finbar” is supposed to be saying deep, symbolic things about the glories of European unification, but the story can’t bear the weight.

It’s about a rebellious Irish teenager (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) who vanishes from a grim Dublin project, inspiring his best friend, Danny (Luke Griffin), to search for him in the wilds of northern Sweden.

Part of the problem is that the Finbar character is both underdeveloped and unattractive — you don’t get a sense of why anyone would miss him, let alone go searching for him in the snow.

Rhys-Meyers, so good as a pretty-boy psychopath in “Ride With the Devil,” here looks like Angelina Jolie’s twin brother.

But it’s his impressive Irish co-star Griffin who gets the most screen time — and gets the sexy Swedish babe, played by Fanny Risberg.