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Woman at War

Original title: Kona fer í stríð
  • 2018
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Woman at War (2018)
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Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

  • Director
    • Benedikt Erlingsson
  • Writers
    • Benedikt Erlingsson
    • Ólafur Egilsson
  • Stars
    • Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
    • Jóhann Sigurðarson
    • Davíð Þór Jónsson
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    12K
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    • Director
      • Benedikt Erlingsson
    • Writers
      • Benedikt Erlingsson
      • Ólafur Egilsson
    • Stars
      • Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
      • Jóhann Sigurðarson
      • Davíð Þór Jónsson
    • 54User reviews
    • 122Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 29 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Woman At War Official Trailer
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    Woman At War Official Trailer
    Woman At War: Another Bloody Sheep
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    Woman At War: Helicopter Chase
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    Woman At War: Adoption
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    Woman At War: So It's You
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    Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
    Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
    • Halla…
    Jóhann Sigurðarson
    • Sveinbjörn
    Davíð Þór Jónsson
    Davíð Þór Jónsson
    • Pianist…
    Magnús Trygvason Eliassen
    • Drummer Band
    • (as Magnús Trygvason Eliasen)
    Omar Gudjonsson
    • Sousaphone Band
    • (as Ómar Guðjónsson)
    Iryna Danyleiko
    • Ukrainian Choir
    Galyna Goncharenko
    • Ukrainian Choir
    Susanna Karpenko
    • Ukrainian Choir
    Jörundur Ragnarsson
    Jörundur Ragnarsson
    • Baldvin
    Juan Camilo Román Estrada
    • Juan Camillo
    • (as Juan Camillo Roman Estrada)
    Charlotte Bøving
    • Adoption agency lady
    Björn Thors
    Björn Thors
    • The Prime Minister
    Hilmir Snær Guðnason
    Hilmir Snær Guðnason
    • Taxi driver
    Jon Johanson
    • Greenhouse farmer
    • (as Jón Jóhannsson)
    Thorstein Gudmundsson
    • Prison guard
    • (as Þorsteinn Guðmundsson)
    Helga Braga Jónsdóttir
    • Prison guard
    Halla Margrét Jóhannesdóttir
    • Halla and Ása's acting double
    Jón Gnarr
    Jón Gnarr
    • President of Iceland
    • Director
      • Benedikt Erlingsson
    • Writers
      • Benedikt Erlingsson
      • Ólafur Egilsson
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    8blott2319-1

    Funny and poignant. Well worth watching.

    Woman at War is a film about a woman who has taken on the role of eco-terrorist to try and fight increased industrialization in Iceland. The question is, can she fight for what she thinks is right, keep her identity hidden from the authorities, and live a normal life in the meantime? This movie was exhilarating in all the right ways. I was totally invested in her adventures, and always wondered if she would take things too far. When regular life comes into play, I was even more interested to see what she might do, since balancing life as an outlaw with domestic life could be impossible. I was totally intrigued by this character. She is likable, and feels like one of the most friendly women you could possibly meet, and yet she is also fiercely passionate about a cause and does what she can for the betterment of her country (without hurting anyone in the process.)

    One of the more quirky elements of Woman at War is something I'd rather not spoil for those who haven't seen the film. However, it's a fun way of breaking the fourth wall that I never saw coming. It made me laugh every time they went there, and added a unique element that sets this film apart from others I've seen. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is absolutely awesome in the lead role. She has to carry a great deal of this film on her own, and she manages to do it all and make it look easy. The tone of the film ranges from serious to silly, and that could throw some people off. Personally, I thought it worked remarkably well, and I enjoyed both the chuckles and the stress of our hero possibly being caught. It's a movie that entertains you and makes a point all at the same time. I would highly recommend Woman at War to anyone looking for something off the beaten path. It's a delightfully different kind of film.
    7bastos

    Really good Icelandic movie

    I really liked this quirky Icelandic eco-thriller about a woman that goes to great lengths to do what she thinks is right for her country. But to try and categorize this movie is a bit tricky, as this reminded me more of Roy Andersson movies than Soylent Green, with a lot of surrealistic moments like a band that provides the movie's soundtrack but is an integral part of the action and, for better or worse, is one of the most unforgettable aspects of this film. It is generally well shot and Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir provides a great performance in the titular role.
    8Pairic

    Comedy Eco-Thriller

    Woman At War: Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) is angry. Angry at Rio Tinto whose smelter is damaging the pristine environment of Iceland. So she takes direct action, sabotaging electricity pylons, cutting off power to the smelter. There is more than just the smelter involved though. Halla's actions are putting at stake a resources exploitation deal between China and Iceland. Halla's gets inside information from a senior civil servant, Baldvin (Jörundur Ragnarsson), Baldvin is now worried that Halla will be caught, a satellite will be used to track her, and tries to persuade her to just issue a manifesto. Halaa gas another reason to reconsider her actions: she has been approved to adopt a girl.

    This is a political thriller, a comedy with surreal overtones, an eco-action film. But foremost it is about the indomitable spirit of one woman who will have to make hard choices. When Halla is pursued by helicopters and drones she hides in crevices, uses the carcass of a dead sheep to fool heat-seeking radar. Discovers a long lost cousin, farmer Sveinbjörn (Jóhann Sigurðarson), who helps her escape. A three piece band and choir trio appear incongruously in scenes. Eventually the surreal turns existential, Halla goes to a rooftop to scatter copies of her manifesto, the band enter the action and tweet images of her proclamation,

    Director & co-writer Benedikt Erlingsson delivers a delightful, funny but hard-hitting drama. 8/10.
    8gcsman

    A total pleasure to watch: engaging, serious, eccentric, and fun.

    Halla (played by Halldora Geirhardsdottir), a middle-aged Icelandic woman leading a seemingly ordinary life, is secretly a fierce eco-warrior. Staying completely off the radar, she conducts lone daring missions of sabotage against a big industrial plant that is endangering the environment of her region and her entire country. Her weapons of choice are small-scale explosives, and bow and arrows. The bare bones of this plot sound like just the sort of thing for a Hollywood action film, but Woman at War is stylistically so different, so NOT Hollywood that it inhabits practically a different universe. And it's all the better for that. We care about what's going on on the screen, and about the protagonist Halla, far more here than we ever would for things like Mission Impossible or Fast and Furious or the Bond films or a dozen other franchises like them which are basically just eye candy.

    There actually aren't that many true 'action' scenes: most of the screen time is devoted to interactions among the relatively small cast of characters, and some slow-burn suspense. Will Halla keep successfully evading the authorities who are ramping up their search for the saboteur? After all, Iceland is a pretty small country. Her motivation for what she's doing also would not cut very deep unless we had a well rounded picture of her life and the deep connection of her fellow Icelanders with their own land. Her sister Asa (played by the same actress -- and the scenes where Asa and Halla are both on screen are seamlessly done) comes in and out of the story, as does cousin Sveinbjorn (Johann Sigurdarson), a farmer who helps Halla at critical moments. Halla is thrown a major curve when her hoped-for chance to adopt a little orphan girl from Eastern Europe come up suddenly: does she change the course of her life to take it, or let it go and continue her profoundly risky guerilla war? There are also genuinely surprising twists -- essentially bits of luck and timing -- that make us realize that every bit of the backstory and setup in the first half of the movie was put there for a reason.

    There are loads of engaging details from beginning to end. In one scene Halla is being hunted by a police drone seeking for her in the countryside near the industrial plant. She shoots it down with her bow and arrow and then stomps it to pieces. (Who wouldn't like to do that with those annoying things, just once?) The oddest touch of all, though, has to do with the music. The edgy background music is played by a small band of musicians who are sometimes actually on screen, standing just to the side of the action -- on roadsides, on city streets, by airport parking lots. Their onscreen presence usually takes place at critical junction points in the story. This eccentric touch takes a further step into the truly surreal when at times Halla actually notices them (!) as if she has stepped outside her own role.

    All in all, it's very much worth seeing. A whole lot of Hollywood studio suits who are only after your money could learn from far more genuine films like this one.
    CinemaClown

    An Ecological Masterpiece

    A bold, quirky & engrossing effort that examines the uphill battle it is for anyone who dares stepping up against corporations & governments to save the planet, Woman at War expertly balances crowd-pleasing obligations with credible environmental concerns to make its plea for actions against climate change without ever sounding preachy to the viewers, and is all the more uplifted by Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir's stellar lead act.

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    • Trivia
      Iceland's submission to the Foreign Language Film Award of the 91st Academy Awards (2019).
    • Goofs
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    • Quotes

      Halla: Economic sabotage.

      Ása: It's extremism, which breeds extremism. He who Jives by the sword, dies by the sword.

      Halla: But no one has been hurt, except our country and our planet.

      Ása: It's not the right way to solve this problem.

      Halla: Meditating in some convent, will that change something?

      Ása: It will change me and thus the world I hope.

      Halla: Isn't that egoism, to think it will change the world?

      Ása: The drop hollows the stone.

      Halla: The stone? The mountains are falling on us, we don't have time to wait for drops.

      Ása: Now you're going to save a child and the entire world with it. Isn't that a small drop or is it just vanity?

      Halla: At least I'm doing something for someone else.

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    • Release date
      • July 4, 2018 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Iceland
      • France
      • Ukraine
    • Official sites
      • Beta Cinema (Germany)
      • Jour2Fête (France)
    • Languages
      • Icelandic
      • English
      • Ukrainian
      • Chinese
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Woman at war
    • Filming locations
      • Iceland
    • Production companies
      • Slot Machine
      • Gulldrengurinn
      • Solar Media Entertainment
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    • Budget
      • €2,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $847,495
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,370
      • Mar 3, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,463,133
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 41m(101 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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