Film screening
Woman at War
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse
5, 4051 Basel
"Halla, the heroine of the film, is around fifty, works as a choir director and secretly sabotages the local aluminum industry in her spare time.
Event details
"Halla, the heroine of the film, is around fifty, works as a choir director and secretly sabotages the local aluminum industry in her spare time. She has her heart in the right place and explosives in her garage - a bit like MacGyver, only with a cardigan. She disables aluminum smelters with bow and arrow, and evades the police with finesse and skill: sometimes she heaves herself under a ledge, sometimes she hides in an animal carcass or dives into the icy river. She fights for more humanity, for nature, for life."
Julia Zutavern, Film Bulletin, October 29, 2018
"At last, a woman in her 50s is playing a character-driven leading role in cinema. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is great as a passionate environmental activist with a desire to have children. The comedy is convincing with black humor, is a feelgood movie, where the message is not too short: you should live in harmony with nature and protect it, even if you have to risk everything for it."
Cynthia Ringgenberg and Patrizia Widmer, SRF 1, November 2018
"Questions of environmental protection and surveillance state, terrorism, climate catastrophe, nature and music as pre-linguistic phenomena, matriarchal life forms, crime plot and action: when you leave the cinema, you are surprised by the seemingly effortlessly achieved complexity of this directorial work, which is only 101 minutes long."
Anke Westphal, epd Film, 23.11.2018
Contributors and additional information:
Iceland/France/Ukraine 2018
101 min. color. DCP. OV/d/f
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Screenplay: Ólafur Egill Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson
Cinematography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editing: Davíð Alexander Corno
Music: Davíð Þór Jónsson
With: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Julia Zutavern, Film Bulletin, October 29, 2018
"At last, a woman in her 50s is playing a character-driven leading role in cinema. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is great as a passionate environmental activist with a desire to have children. The comedy is convincing with black humor, is a feelgood movie, where the message is not too short: you should live in harmony with nature and protect it, even if you have to risk everything for it."
Cynthia Ringgenberg and Patrizia Widmer, SRF 1, November 2018
"Questions of environmental protection and surveillance state, terrorism, climate catastrophe, nature and music as pre-linguistic phenomena, matriarchal life forms, crime plot and action: when you leave the cinema, you are surprised by the seemingly effortlessly achieved complexity of this directorial work, which is only 101 minutes long."
Anke Westphal, epd Film, 23.11.2018
Contributors and additional information:
Iceland/France/Ukraine 2018
101 min. color. DCP. OV/d/f
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Screenplay: Ólafur Egill Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson
Cinematography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editing: Davíð Alexander Corno
Music: Davíð Þór Jónsson
With: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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