Film
Woman At War
- Director
- Benedikt Erlingsson
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 101 mins
Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson follows the well received Of Horses and Men with this delightful, typically quirky, genre-dodging drama which was his country’s official submission to the Oscars.
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir plays choir director Halla, who leads a secret double life as an eco-activist. Armed with a powerful bow and arrow which she uses to bring down drones and power cables, she wages a one-woman war against a highland aluminium plant. But Halla faces a dilemma when she receives news that her application to adopt a child from Ukraine has been successful, just as the government steps up its campaign to track down and discredit her. Qurkiness? Did I mention that she has a chalk’n’cheese identical twin sister (also played by Geirharðsdóttir) and that a trio of fourth wall-breaking Ukrainian singers pop up to join in and offer musical accompaniment at key moments. There’s already a US remake in the works from Jodie Foster.
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