Woman at War (2018)
★★★★☆
Woman at War ((Kona fer í stríð) by Benedikt Erlingsson is an environmental drama and a whimsical mid-life-crisis comedy.
Iceland
Under the Tree/Undir trénu (2017)
★★★☆☆
Under the Tree by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson is a mordant suburban black comedy that escalates an everyday situation into shocking Icelandic horror.
Heartstone (2016)
★★★★☆
A simmering study of youth and sexuality set against jaw-dropping Icelandic landscapes, Heartstone gets kids right, if not necessarily which kids to focus on.
Rams (2015)
★★★★☆
A humanistic Icelandic tragi-comedy, Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams sees two estranged brothers forced to unite to save their prized rams.
Festival Review: Virgin Mountain / Fúsi (2014)
★★★★☆
Beautifully paced and scripted, Dagur Kári’s Virgin Mountain is the deft tale of an ageing mummy’s boy who finds both love and himself.
Of Horses And Men (2013)
★★★★☆
Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses And Men is a beautifully interwoven series of dark and hilarious cautionary tales that will win you over at a canter.
The Deep / Djúpið (2012)
★★★☆☆
A Norse saga for the modern day, Baltasar Kormákur’s The Deep stages a play on survival and mythmaking against the backdrop of Iceland’s dramatic landscape.