Godland

This transfixing drama is certainly austere. But there’s also a marvelously odd vein of sneaky humor running through it, along with an unpredictability that keeps you glued.

“Godland” tells a story of natural wonder, elemental beauty and human folly.

An engrossing account of a voyage to the dark side of permanent daylight.

All this is enormously rich material to work with, rendered all the more engaging by the surroundings. But Pálmason doesn’t make “Godland” easy on audiences.

It's a breathtaking, slow burn, poetic journey through an utterly gorgeous hell for this Danish missionary-colonialist-photographer.

[Godland] has everything one hopes to find in a film... characters with contradictions and layers, and the feeling that we're discovering cinema for the first time. [Full review in Spanish]

If character and anthropological curiosity are Godland’s primary interests, the beauty of the landscape is its biggest selling point. Withering and gentle, it is the kind of film that rewards those who are willing to meet it halfway.

With a pair of fine lead performances and some beautiful cinematography, Hylnur Pálmason has created a film that is as beautiful as it is intelligent. Don’t miss it.

Godland has all the transportive visual trappings of a man against nature story but it’s really a tragedy of a man battling his own arrogance and losing.

Pálmason channels his inner Herzog and Malick and delivers a daunting, immersing 19th-century journey, one that pits naivety against nature and proficiency. An instant classic!