Tag: Icelandic Cinema
Exclusive Clip: Painted Birds in Elfar Adalsteins’ ‘Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night’
For his sophomore feature film, Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins adapts from Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson's novel. This comes after 2019's End of Sentence...
When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning
For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks....
Interview: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson – Beautiful Beings
In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I conversed with Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, whose sophomore film Beautiful Beings is Iceland’s official submission in...
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...
A White, White Day | Review
Indiscretion of an Icelandic Wife: Palmason Primes a Crime of Passion in Simmering Drama
Nothing is initially what it seems in Icelandic director Hlynur...
Interview: Hlynur Pálmason & Ingvar E. Sigurdsson – A White, White Day
At the last Critics' Week in Cannes 2019, critics took notice of Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature, A White, White Day. Pálmason’s debut, Winter Brothers,...
Echo | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Last Word: Rúnarsson Sketches Mosaic of Modern Iceland in Varied Vignettes
Had each of the 56 segments of Echo, the third film from Iceland’s...
Woman at War | Review
Female Misbehavior: Erlingsson Explores Ecofeminism in Entertaining Character Portrait
After exploring the defining social elements between humans and their horses in his homegrown debut Of...
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....