Film
Woman at War (12A)
Dir. Benedikt Erlingsson, France/Iceland, 2018, 101 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Halldora Geirharosdottir, Johann Sigurdarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada.
Halla is a 50-year-old choir director with a song in her heart, a smile on her face, and a second life as Reykjavik’s peskiest eco-terrorist. The film’s playful and surprising prologue introduces us to her as she uses her bow-and-arrow to topple some of the power lines that stretch across the yellow-green fields of the Icelandic highlands. This, we learn, is the fifth time she’s tried to exact some vigilante justice. Playful, touching and very, very funny, Woman at War is also sound-tracked by Icelandic folk music (played quirkily and incongruously by musicians on-screen) as it follows its appealing, fierce and focused heroine.
Cast. Halldora Geirharosdottir, Johann Sigurdarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada.
Halla is a 50-year-old choir director with a song in her heart, a smile on her face, and a second life as Reykjavik’s peskiest eco-terrorist. The film’s playful and surprising prologue introduces us to her as she uses her bow-and-arrow to topple some of the power lines that stretch across the yellow-green fields of the Icelandic highlands. This, we learn, is the fifth time she’s tried to exact some vigilante justice. Playful, touching and very, very funny, Woman at War is also sound-tracked by Icelandic folk music (played quirkily and incongruously by musicians on-screen) as it follows its appealing, fierce and focused heroine.
