Godland (2022)
(Vanskabte land/Volaᵭa Land)
Country: DK/ICE/FR/SV
Technical: col/1.33:1 143m
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Lohmann
Synopsis:
Iceland in the late nineteenth century, and a priest is sent to establish a church on the far side of the island. Choosing to trek on horseback across the mountainous interior, so that he can take photographs and discover God's world, he immediately falls foul of his guide, a gruff Icelander who refuses to speak Danish.
Review:
Shot on 16mm, presumably as a counter to the archaic photographic methods employed by the priest, this deliberately paced film is not straightaway welcoming to the idle viewer. It is, however, fascinating in its period detail and use of landscape. One begins to see how tenuous can be the grasp on faith, how irrelevant almost, when confronted with such monstrous natural forces, and the monstrosity transfers itself to the ill-prepared man of God. (Apparently, the title is misleading and means 'deformed by God', perhaps 'forsaken'.)
(Vanskabte land/Volaᵭa Land)
Country: DK/ICE/FR/SV
Technical: col/1.33:1 143m
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Lohmann
Synopsis:
Iceland in the late nineteenth century, and a priest is sent to establish a church on the far side of the island. Choosing to trek on horseback across the mountainous interior, so that he can take photographs and discover God's world, he immediately falls foul of his guide, a gruff Icelander who refuses to speak Danish.
Review:
Shot on 16mm, presumably as a counter to the archaic photographic methods employed by the priest, this deliberately paced film is not straightaway welcoming to the idle viewer. It is, however, fascinating in its period detail and use of landscape. One begins to see how tenuous can be the grasp on faith, how irrelevant almost, when confronted with such monstrous natural forces, and the monstrosity transfers itself to the ill-prepared man of God. (Apparently, the title is misleading and means 'deformed by God', perhaps 'forsaken'.)
(Vanskabte land/Volaᵭa Land)
Country: DK/ICE/FR/SV
Technical: col/1.33:1 143m
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Lohmann
Synopsis:
Iceland in the late nineteenth century, and a priest is sent to establish a church on the far side of the island. Choosing to trek on horseback across the mountainous interior, so that he can take photographs and discover God's world, he immediately falls foul of his guide, a gruff Icelander who refuses to speak Danish.
Review:
Shot on 16mm, presumably as a counter to the archaic photographic methods employed by the priest, this deliberately paced film is not straightaway welcoming to the idle viewer. It is, however, fascinating in its period detail and use of landscape. One begins to see how tenuous can be the grasp on faith, how irrelevant almost, when confronted with such monstrous natural forces, and the monstrosity transfers itself to the ill-prepared man of God. (Apparently, the title is misleading and means 'deformed by God', perhaps 'forsaken'.)