Godland

Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
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Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason
One of the year's best films. Bone-chilling, eye-dazzling, heart-wrenching. Both an epic saga of landscape cinema and a philosophical voyage. Like all the best movies, we can’t tell where this is going. When it arrives, the finale is worthy of all that has come before. Nobody makes movies like this any more – except that some do.
Astonishing. Jaw-dropping image after jaw-dropping image; ideas and pathos and hilarity too.
Guy Lodge
VARIETY
Hugely rewarding.
Visionary. An arctic 'There Will Be Blood'. Pálmason is an artist, a cinematic original whose voice grows stronger and more certain with each film.
Extraordinary. I left the cinema dazed and elated by its artistry; it is breathtaking in its epic scale and magnificent in its comprehension of landscape.
A knockout. This transfixing drama plays out in unexpected ways, like a stark bulletin from another time. It's a work of majesty that exerts a powerful hold.
Outstanding. A masterful, magnificently shot story of natural wonder, elemental beauty and human folly.
A savage indictment of colonial arrogance that plays like Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo' crossed with 'There Will Be Blood', and suffers not at all for either comparison. There are images here of the Icelandic landscape that are as majestic as anything ever put to film.
It seems that once in a blue moon they do make them like they used to. This is one I’ll be raving about annoyingly for years.
Engrossing. An accomplished, ambitious work which has a Herzogian fascination with vast, unforgiving landscapes, hubris and madness.
Exceptional. Magisterial in the manner of 19th century epic novels and visually influenced by that era’s photography, Hlynur Pálmason’s third feature is a stunning, psychologically rich tale set against Iceland’s awe-inspiring landscapes. Will become a much-discussed art house release.
Exceptionally rewarding.
Spectacular, visceral and epic. A work of the highest order, looking in-depth at the crushing link between the millennial powers of nature and the gaping moral faults that are revealed when humans are pushed to their limits.
Breathtaking. A film of extraordinary craft and power. Striking for the economy and delicacy of its aesthetic.
Already one of the year's best films. This arrestingly beautiful journey into the unknown is a voyage of visual splendour, as terrifying as it is breathtaking, and divine contemplation
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Hilmar Guðjónsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Duration: 142mins
Country of Origin: Iceland
M
Mature themes, violence and nudity
One of the year's best films. Bone-chilling, eye-dazzling, heart-wrenching. Both an epic saga of landscape cinema and a philosophical voyage. Like all the best movies, we can’t tell where this is going. When it arrives, the finale is worthy of all that has come before. Nobody makes movies like this any more – except that some do.
Astonishing. Jaw-dropping image after jaw-dropping image; ideas and pathos and hilarity too.
Guy Lodge
VARIETY
Hugely rewarding.
Visionary. An arctic 'There Will Be Blood'. Pálmason is an artist, a cinematic original whose voice grows stronger and more certain with each film.
Extraordinary. I left the cinema dazed and elated by its artistry; it is breathtaking in its epic scale and magnificent in its comprehension of landscape.
A knockout. This transfixing drama plays out in unexpected ways, like a stark bulletin from another time. It's a work of majesty that exerts a powerful hold.
Outstanding. A masterful, magnificently shot story of natural wonder, elemental beauty and human folly.
A savage indictment of colonial arrogance that plays like Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo' crossed with 'There Will Be Blood', and suffers not at all for either comparison. There are images here of the Icelandic landscape that are as majestic as anything ever put to film.
It seems that once in a blue moon they do make them like they used to. This is one I’ll be raving about annoyingly for years.
Engrossing. An accomplished, ambitious work which has a Herzogian fascination with vast, unforgiving landscapes, hubris and madness.
Exceptional. Magisterial in the manner of 19th century epic novels and visually influenced by that era’s photography, Hlynur Pálmason’s third feature is a stunning, psychologically rich tale set against Iceland’s awe-inspiring landscapes. Will become a much-discussed art house release.
Exceptionally rewarding.
Spectacular, visceral and epic. A work of the highest order, looking in-depth at the crushing link between the millennial powers of nature and the gaping moral faults that are revealed when humans are pushed to their limits.
Breathtaking. A film of extraordinary craft and power. Striking for the economy and delicacy of its aesthetic.
Already one of the year's best films. This arrestingly beautiful journey into the unknown is a voyage of visual splendour, as terrifying as it is breathtaking, and divine contemplation

OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2024 ACADEMY AWARDS – Best International Feature (Iceland)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2022 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Un Certain Regard)
2022 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS - Nominee - Best Actor
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2022 BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)
WINNER - 2022 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Best Film, Best Cinematography
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2023 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2023 GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2022 TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2022 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)

Award winning writer/director Hlynur Pálmason’s much anticipated follow-up to his breakout hit A White, White Day is a stunning historical drama of a Danish priest who made a pilgrimage across a largely unexplored Iceland in the late 1800s.

Lucas (Elliot Crosset Hove), an idealistic but naive young Lutheran clergyman, is on his way to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. With the help of a translator (Hilmar Guðjónsson) and guide (Ingvar E. Sigurðsson), he must journey across the spectacular and dangerous terrain, littered with glaciers and rivers. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality, with unexpected and shocking repercussions.

Recalling such landmark films as Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God and P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, Pálmason captures the unwelcome priest's perilous journey in haunting detail and artistry, with evocative cinematography from Maria von Hausswolff that mirrors his characters’ obsession to document a strange new environment, and where worlds, ideas and language collide with enthralling impact.

Godland - a film by Hlynur Pálmason

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