2018 · comedy · drama · icelandic
Woman at War
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson1h 41m2018
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
Our read: Woman at War (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · icelandic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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