Screening times:
Friday, April 7, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, April 8, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Hlynur Pálmason | Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden | 2022 | 143m | Danish and Icelandic with English subtitles
with Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
In Godland, Hlynur Pálmason (Winter Brothers, A White, White Day) explores Danish colonialism and Icelandic opposition to it set against the forbidding Icelandic landscape. In his director's statement he says "In the end, I found out that this film is very much about what divides us and what ties us together. And I was surprised to find out that in the end, death might be the only thing that ties us together. This is the core of the film, the beating heart."
"With Godland, Pálmason — one of the foremost figures in Icelandic cinema alongside Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men, Woman at War) — has enlisted us for a voyage of visual splendor, as terrifying as it is breathtaking, and divine contemplation. In cinema, he’s found a no man’s land where two opposing worldviews can have a visceral dialogue." -Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire - Critic's Pick
"Such is one secret of this extraordinary film, and of its power to exhilarate: the shock of emotional vigor, arising from the continual rub of physical texture and effort." -Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available).
Half capacity
Half capacity
