Sveinn Olafur Gunnarsson

After the global success of his Un Certain Regard winner Rams, director Grímur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. Bitterly funny and deeply affecting, the film plays out a timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine and Hákonarson's dry Nordic humor. When we first meet Inga, she is mid-wifing a calf, in the middle of another back-breaking...