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<\/h3>\nNow Playing at New York\u2019s IFC Center<\/a> and Landmark at 57 West<\/a> and in Los Angeles. A national expansion will follow.<\/h4>\nDirector: Benedikt Erlingsson<\/em>
\nWriters: \u00d3lafur Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson<\/em>
\nStars: Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir (Halla and \u00c1sa), J\u00f3hann Sigur\u00f0arson (Sveinbj\u00f6rn),<\/em>
\nJuan Camillo Roman Estrada (Juan Camillo)<\/em>
\nEnglish subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
One-hour, 41 minutes of sumptuous, sensual cinematography of Icelandic landscapes \u2013 plus waves of an irresistible minimalistic film score from a three-man ensemble and a female chorus of three Ukrainian singers showing up at moments like Greek Choruses \u2013 await audiences in this film by Director Benedikt Erlingsson about an environmental gladiator who uses a bow and arrow to take out the high tension electrical towers of an aluminum corporation threatening to defoil her local community.<\/p>\n
Benedikt\u2019s film features Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir as Halla, 51, a choir director by day and by night an arrow-firing vigilante with the emotional and physical moxie of a triathlete with a stealth mystique to boot. The local news media sensationalize her as \u201cThe Woman of the Mountain,\u201d and the government and its law enforcement wing of tactically armed police hunt her down as a terrorist. Foul weather, below-freezing rivers and law enforcement drones & helicopters using heat and infrared sensors don\u2019t deter her.<\/p>\n
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Halla played by Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir.<\/p><\/div>\n
Parts of this review read like a description of a swashbuckling, mind blowing, cosmic action-adventure with a timely environmental theme right? It has the pulse and panache and soul of a swash-buckling, mind blowing, cosmic action adventure but \u2026 Director Erlingsson’s melodramatic gravitas cannot be denied.<\/p>\n
Waves of allegorical and mystical motifs flow like velvet through the narrative \u2013 so much so that this reviewer mildly hallucinated that he might actually be swept up into the screen to join Halla on her search and destroy missions and that a higher plain of aural and visual sensations could be experienced by tracking track down a WOMAN AT WAR DVD or streaming site sans English subtitles. Why? The fleeting minutes of a WOMAN AT WAR trailer \u2013 sans English subtitles \u2013 exposed him to an incredible cosmic experience akin to a flash of the mind-body-soul continuum, the dialogue understood figuratively, not literally.<\/p>\n
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Plot<\/h3>\n
Halla, 51, is a popular choir director by day, a stealth guerrilla by night. Baldvin played by J\u00f6rundur Ragnarsson, a member of he chorus, is also a government official who\u2019s been helping her out with intelligence. He is becoming fidgety because of escalating propaganda efforts by the government to smear her and getting significant help from the obsequious news media. Law enforcement also escalate its efforts. Halla responds by engaging in more derring-do. Sveinbj\u00f6rn played by J\u00f3hann Sigur\u00f0arson, a sheep farmer, also helps her.<\/p>\n
In the course of her tactical missions, increasing passionately, with the law enforcement seemingly getting closer to arresting her – Halla gets a letter. Letter!?! She is notified that she has been approved to adopt a Ukrainian child. She is overjoyed. Her identical twin sister \u00c1sa (also played by Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir) is delighted for her sisiter. The sudden appearance of a \u00c1sa \u2013 as idealistic as her twin about saving the world but seeks fulfillment via spiritual means \u2013 ramps up things.<\/p>\n
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To write more may introduce a layer of unintended spoilers that this reviewer doesn\u2019t want to do.<\/p>\n
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Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One-hour, 41 minutes of sumptuous, sensual cinematography of Icelandic landscapes \u2013 plus waves of an irresistible minimalistic film score from a three-man ensemble and a female chorus of three Ukrainian singers showing up at moments like Greek Choruses \u2013 await audiences in this film by Director Benedikt Erlingsson about an environmental gladiator who uses a bow and arrow to take out the high tension electrical towers of an aluminum corporation threatening to defoil her local community.<\/p>\n
\nWriters: \u00d3lafur Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson<\/em>
\nStars: Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir (Halla and \u00c1sa), J\u00f3hann Sigur\u00f0arson (Sveinbj\u00f6rn),<\/em>
\nJuan Camillo Roman Estrada (Juan Camillo)<\/em>
\nEnglish subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
One-hour, 41 minutes of sumptuous, sensual cinematography of Icelandic landscapes \u2013 plus waves of an irresistible minimalistic film score from a three-man ensemble and a female chorus of three Ukrainian singers showing up at moments like Greek Choruses \u2013 await audiences in this film by Director Benedikt Erlingsson about an environmental gladiator who uses a bow and arrow to take out the high tension electrical towers of an aluminum corporation threatening to defoil her local community.<\/p>\n
Benedikt\u2019s film features Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir as Halla, 51, a choir director by day and by night an arrow-firing vigilante with the emotional and physical moxie of a triathlete with a stealth mystique to boot. The local news media sensationalize her as \u201cThe Woman of the Mountain,\u201d and the government and its law enforcement wing of tactically armed police hunt her down as a terrorist. Foul weather, below-freezing rivers and law enforcement drones & helicopters using heat and infrared sensors don\u2019t deter her.<\/p>\n
Halla played by Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir.<\/p><\/div>\n
Parts of this review read like a description of a swashbuckling, mind blowing, cosmic action-adventure with a timely environmental theme right? It has the pulse and panache and soul of a swash-buckling, mind blowing, cosmic action adventure but \u2026 Director Erlingsson’s melodramatic gravitas cannot be denied.<\/p>\n
Waves of allegorical and mystical motifs flow like velvet through the narrative \u2013 so much so that this reviewer mildly hallucinated that he might actually be swept up into the screen to join Halla on her search and destroy missions and that a higher plain of aural and visual sensations could be experienced by tracking track down a WOMAN AT WAR DVD or streaming site sans English subtitles. Why? The fleeting minutes of a WOMAN AT WAR trailer \u2013 sans English subtitles \u2013 exposed him to an incredible cosmic experience akin to a flash of the mind-body-soul continuum, the dialogue understood figuratively, not literally.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Plot<\/h3>\n
Halla, 51, is a popular choir director by day, a stealth guerrilla by night. Baldvin played by J\u00f6rundur Ragnarsson, a member of he chorus, is also a government official who\u2019s been helping her out with intelligence. He is becoming fidgety because of escalating propaganda efforts by the government to smear her and getting significant help from the obsequious news media. Law enforcement also escalate its efforts. Halla responds by engaging in more derring-do. Sveinbj\u00f6rn played by J\u00f3hann Sigur\u00f0arson, a sheep farmer, also helps her.<\/p>\n
In the course of her tactical missions, increasing passionately, with the law enforcement seemingly getting closer to arresting her – Halla gets a letter. Letter!?! She is notified that she has been approved to adopt a Ukrainian child. She is overjoyed. Her identical twin sister \u00c1sa (also played by Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir) is delighted for her sisiter. The sudden appearance of a \u00c1sa \u2013 as idealistic as her twin about saving the world but seeks fulfillment via spiritual means \u2013 ramps up things.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
To write more may introduce a layer of unintended spoilers that this reviewer doesn\u2019t want to do.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One-hour, 41 minutes of sumptuous, sensual cinematography of Icelandic landscapes \u2013 plus waves of an irresistible minimalistic film score from a three-man ensemble and a female chorus of three Ukrainian singers showing up at moments like Greek Choruses \u2013 await audiences in this film by Director Benedikt Erlingsson about an environmental gladiator who uses a bow and arrow to take out the high tension electrical towers of an aluminum corporation threatening to defoil her local community.<\/p>\n