Godland (2022)

Original title

Vanskabte land

Directed by

Hlynur Pálmason

Genre

drama film

Country

Iceland, France, Denmark

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 200 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to Iceland to establish a church. He struggles with the brutal landscape and cannot speak the local language, which strains his relationship with his Icelandic guide.

bleakslow-burnmeditativeharshcontemplativeausterevisually starktense

What happens

Godland (Icelandic: Volaða land, Danish: Vanskabte Land, lit. 'Malformed Land') is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Set in the late 19th century, the film stars Elliott Crosset Hove as Lucas, a Lutheran priest from Denmark who is sent to Iceland to oversee the establishment of a new parish church, only to have his faith tested and challenged by the harsh conditions of rural life, including his inability as a monolingual Danish-language speaker to communicate with his assigned Icelandic guide, Ragnar (Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson). The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2022, and was nominated for many and won several awards in 2022, including the Gold Hugo for Best Feature Film at the Chicago Film Festival. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, and was one of the 15 finalist films in the December shortlist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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