THE COUNTY: Icelandic Activism
Fri, Apr 30
|Virtual Cinema
The director of oscar-nominated RAMS, Grímur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. A deeply affecting and timely political allegory set within a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a tenacious anti-heroine with a touch of dry, idiosyncratic Nordic humor.
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2021, 12:00 AM – May 31, 2021, 11:59 PM
Virtual Cinema
About the event
THE COUNTY (Héraðið). Iceland, 2019, Directed by Grímur Hákonarson, 92 mins. Virtual Tickets are $10. for 72 hours of viewing. WATCH TRAILER & FILM: https://watch.eventive.org/thecounty/play/6086d4f5eede7500307dd5a9
Inga, a resourceful dairy farmer rebels against an all powerful local Cooperative. She tries to get other farmers to join her in rising up against the Co-op’s corruption encountering great resistance, forcing her to confront the community’s dependence and loyalty to this single, dominant enterprise. Cinematographer Mart Taniel captures Iceland’s famously stunning countryside, lending a lush pictorial grandeur to The County’s social realist ethos, recalling the best of Ken Loach. The County cuts deep, putting a human face on an all-too-likely conflict, along with suspense, charm, and a touch of dry, idiosyncratic Nordic humor.
"After the death of her dairy farmer husband, a middle-aged woman courageously sacrifices her livelihood to speak out against the corruption and injustice at work in her community in the audience-pleasing,…