{"id":2314,"date":"2018-02-27T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2019-12-14T21:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T21:35:25","slug":"woman-at-war-iceland-thu-26-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2018\/02\/woman-at-war-iceland-thu-26-september\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN AT WAR [KONA FER \u00cd STR\u00cd\u00d0 &#8211; ICELAND], THU 26 SEPTEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2v3_jHrvBQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A music teacher leads a double life as an environmental warrior\/industrial saboteur in this jet-black comedy.\u00a0 An intelligent, feel-good film that manages to tackle urgent global issues with humour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meet Halla, a music teacher in her forties. She is a happy, upbeat woman who leads a quiet and routine life. But unbeknown to most she is also \u2018The Mountain Woman\u2019: a lone wolf environmental activist who disrupts the operations of an aluminium plant in the Icelandic highlands, by cutting power supply and damaging pylons in acts of industrial sabatogue.<\/p>\n<p>As the authorities intensify their campaign to catch her, she receives an update on a long forgotten adoption application and learns she has been matched with a four-year-old girl in the Ukraine. Can she reconcile this with her crusade to protect her homeland from big industry or will her efforts destroy her chances of finally becoming a mother?<\/p>\n<p>A funny, moving and utterly unique film.<\/p>\n<p><em>A huge showcase for Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir, who brings grit, determination, and quiet charisma to every scene. An engaging curiosity and an absolute joy.<\/em> \u2013 The Irish Times<\/p>\n<p><em>Amid the jet-black comedy of\u00a0Woman at War, which takes as its catastrophic subject matter the despoliation of planet Earth, there is a warmth, wit and wisdom that transcend national and cultural boundaries, making this a truly universal treat<\/em>. &#8211; The Guardian\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n<p>97% rating and\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/woman_at_war\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Winner &#8211; Best Screenplay, Critics\u2019 Week, Cannes Film Festival 2018<\/p>\n<p>Winner &#8211; LUX Film Prize 2018<\/p>\n<p>Iceland, 2018 | Language: Icelandic | 101 minutes | Cert: 12A<\/p>\n<p>Director: Benedikt Erlingsson<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Halld\u00f3ra Geirhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir, J\u00f3hann Sigur\u00f0arson, Roman Estrada, J\u00f6rundur Ragnarsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff A music teacher leads a double life as an environmental warrior\/industrial saboteur in this jet-black comedy.\u00a0 An intelligent, feel-good film that manages to tackle urgent global issues with humour&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[52,18,35,37,55,22,76,77,28,21,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}