Iceland
From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.
While Beautiful Beings is well-intentioned and certainly emotionally resonant in parts, it stops short of having a lasting emotional effect.
An elegy not just for the human race but for the great artist that brought it to the screen, Last and First Men is a striking meditation on mortality.
Queerly Ever After #60 focuses on Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Icelandic film Jitters, a teen drama filled with first crushes and tragic events.
Grímur Hákonarson’s The County follows an Icelandic widowed farmer as she fights beauracratic corruption and injustice.
While it doesn’t give its audience straightforward answers, Echo offers a kind of diagonal empathy that’s refreshing and valuable.
Anchored by Sigurdsson’s striking performance, A White, White Day explores the aftermath of a life and a marriage with an intensely introspective eye.
A movie mirror-image to last year’s First Reformed, Woman at War is a strikingly beautiful story of one woman’s desire to do good.
A film that is extremely competently made, it’s easy to understand why And Breathe Normally was praised so highly at Sundance
We spoke with Joe Penna, director of the upcoming survival film starring Mads Mikkelsen called Arctic, about shooting in island and his transition from Youtube.
We spoke with Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir about her directorial debut, The Swan, and discussed its darker scenes.
In the sea of stellar coming-of-age films that have recently been released, The Swan’s beautiful blend of human drama and magical realism is still unique enough to stand out.
With a failure to properly establish the story, is a black comedy that is consistently frustrating and close to devoid of any laughs.
The accomplished acting, stunning cinematography, and solid direction keeps Rift constantly engaging and steeped with talent, absolving it of its genre short-comings.
Iceland is slowly becoming one of the planet’s leading cinematic nations, with many directors realising that the country’s desolate landscape is the perfect fit for sci-fi. Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott have both shot there recently, whereas the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was filming there last autumn.