Best movie 2019

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir and Woman at War’s accompanying band.

 Magnolia Pictures

WOMAN AT WAR

Woman at War deals with heavy themes like destructive effects of aluminium plants on the Icelandic highlands, and the way that corporations and governments can control a narrative, through the perspective of a spirited heroine. As choir conductor turned environmental activist Halla, actress Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is a delight, perfectly balancing the strength required to go on her one-woman crusade with a vulnerability that trickles through as a long-forgotten adoption application is suddenly approved.