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The County | Review

The Sorrows of Milk: Hákonarson Returns for More Rural Retribution Iceland’s Grímur Hákonarson heads to Norma Rae (1979) territory in the agricultural hinterlands with third...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #63. The County – Grimur Hakonarson

The County Four years after his hit sophomore film Rams (2015), Iceland’s Grimur Hakonarson should at last be ready with his third feature, The County....

Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11

As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #63. Grimur Hakonarson’s The County

The County Director: Grimur Hakonarson Writer: Grimur Hakonarson Rising to the top of notable Icelandic film directors is Grimur Hakonarson, whose 2015 sophomore feature Rams won the...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

2015 TIFF: Porumboiu, Muntean, Sewitsky & Tsangari Among Contemporary World Cinema Selections

Anne Sewitsky's Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean's One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure along with Athina Rachel...

2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes

Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...

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