Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir was born on August 12, 1968. Her protest of industry would seriously put her prospective adoptive child at risk, who has already had all their family killed in a war. Unable to add item to List. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The instrumentalists are joined by a trio of Ukrainian singers when Halla finds out she might be adopting a young orphan named Nika from that country. You're probably saying to yourself, "Oh, brother. We traveled Scandinavia with this and we did this performance for two years and then we worked together a lot in the theaters. Did you know everything you were in for with this role? Also because we have musicians and singers and so on and this is a fairy tale, the need to be organic in that sense with this type of casting was not right for me. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir: For him, it was a hell of a job to do all the the music ahead [of time] and calculate everything, do pre-takes to see if the music was long enough or short enough so he didn’t have to cut in the middle of a song because the scene wasn’t exactly how they’d like it to be, but for me, it was great because in the theater, we often have the band offstage so I could work with the rhythm. I heard Benedikt was initially thinking of casting twins in the movie – what sold you on having her play both parts? Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir in Woman at War. If Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (2018) is austere and ascetic, Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War is reflexively warm hearted and gratifying. Woman at War is now out on DVD and Digital HD from Magnolia Home Entertainment. Let’s give it the attention it has earned. The first comes in a very well-considered credits sequence, where the titles hang over the low Icelandic skies. With the film now arriving on American shores after a celebrated festival run, the dynamic duo spoke about how they scaled this particular summit together, requiring Geirharðsdóttir to not only play Halla but her twin Asa, and making up for the environmental impact they’ve had after racking up so many travel miles to promote it. Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019, A person from a different culture finds a way to resist corporate intrusion into their environment or surroundings.The, Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019, able to enjoy movie with others (had a short run in my city), Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019. Halla is many things: an independent woman, a twin sister, a choir director, a prospective adoptive mother… and an eco-vigilante. This beautifully written, directed and acted film raises important issues about the environment, environmental activism and the meaning of family --- while juggling a humorous subplot, a witty musical through-line and a couple of excellent plot twists. You better have a good company, and let’s say I’m in very good company. In the Icelandic “Woman at War,” Geirharðsdóttir also plays Asa, who together with her Halla falls prostrate to the earth in moments of desperation or contemplation, embracing the ground in a way that seems only natural. Funny, moving and utterly unique, WOMAN AT WAR follows Halla as she juggles the adoption of a beautiful little girl whilst planning her final act of industrial sabotage. Like two or three months before he started shooting, he took another circle on what actors he wanted to do the part, so he challenged himself again. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is an Icelandic actress and theater director with a broad range from drama to comedy. But her happy and upbeat exterior hides a secret double life as a committed environmental activist. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir: He took a long time to decide. Learn how your comment data is processed. Woman at War is a right sized personal opus. “Meet Halla, Icelandic superwoman in a woolly jumper. Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019. We are childhood friends, but though we have been working in theater since we were children, I made her do auditions. The film takes yet another measure as Halla is a choir teacher by trade – the music innovatively blending between grand operatic choir and bold multi-instrument statements of intent. It’s hard to imagine a drama about climate change can be delightful, but that’s exactly what Woman at War is. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir: Yes, and I’m just very lucky he chose me. Certainly, I realized that it is part of the fantasy and the playfulness to go all the way. I needed a goddess and you know the twin thing could be even more interesting with an excellent actress like her doing the twist. And I really looked at the band like part of me being in the film. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Actress: Kona fer í stríð. Actress Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir makes Halla an engagingly formidable eco-justice warrior (and plays her twin as an equally dedicated activist – of the self) in this delightfully off-the-wall new film from Benedikt Erlingsson, director of Of Horses and Men. Really happy. This is repeated, whether she’s on a rooftop or by a public pool. Winningly mixes absurdist comedy and tense thriller, with Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as a fearless eco-warrior juggling environmental action and foster motherhood. [laughs] But for me, it was not a problem to think about it because I have played so many parts through my life, I could play two parts in the same film. The on-screen musicians were a wonderful bizarre addition. REBECCA: An Visually-Striking Adaptation Does its Damnedest to Escape the Shadow of its…, With New Director’s Cut, DOCTOR SLEEP Proves a Mike Flanagan Masterwork, THE TREE OF LIFE: Terrence Malick’s Revelatory Wrestling Match With The Eternal, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is Charlie Kaufman Working Without a Net, Top 10 2019 Films To Make You More Empathetic/Compassionate. We used a lot of live takes. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir in WOMAN AT WAR. She does have the good graces of a local farmer who is said to be her cousin and helps traffic her around and coordinate travel between her dangerous activities. Innovative musical fusion in Woman at War.Dir. With an aluminum plant outside Reykjavik in her sights, she deploys tricks to disrupt production, finding new ways to knock out power to the plant without being caught. Which European Country Makes the Best Films? And our heroine’s not getting any younger, this may be her only chance at nurturing a young life. “There is no sex, no drugs, no murder, no plot…well, maybe some plot,” Benedikt Erlingsson said with a bit of a wry smirk in his introduction to his latest film “Woman at War,” though if his goal was to lower expectations about how exciting his follow-up to “Of Horses and Men” is, perhaps he should’ve thought twice about opening it with such a thrilling introduction where indeed the bow and arrow that Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) points up towards the heavens isn’t intended to kill anyone, but instead bring down the local power lines in an effort to convince Chinese investors to abandon plans to bring industry into her beloved mountains of Iceland. Acclaimed actress Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, best known for “Woman at War,” is set to star in writer/director Ragnar Bragason’s dark comedy “The Garden.”. Known to others as “The Mountain Woman”, she wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry to protect the stunning highland landscape that is under threat. Geirharðsdóttir gives a magnetic central performance, playing the yin and yang of activist Halla and her identical twin Asa, who plans to retreat to an Indian ashram to seek inner fulfillment. Benedikt Erlingsson: For economical and organizing reasons, we shot the film on the highlands around Reykjavik, but it’s just a 20-minute drive [from the city]. A drumroll accompanies Halla as she pulls back the upper limb of the bow, and the camera slyly pulls back to reveal that drummer is on the mountain with her, along with a tuba player and accordionist who follow her around everywhere she goes – a one-woman wrecking crew whose plans nonetheless call for a number of things to work in concert, well aware of the importance of harmony, working as a choir director when she isn’t protecting the environment. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir stars as Halla in the comedy/drama from Iceland “Woman at War,” showing June 4 at the Jane Pickens Theater. Yet another Icelandic-Ukrainian drama." It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. “He would chain himself to whale boats so they wouldn’t go out fishing whales when he was 17 or 18.”. sister Asa. The wry, environmentally friendly Icelandic eco-activist fairy tale "Woman at War" features the actress Halldora Geirharðsdottir in a dual role. It has such a great endless heart. She is an actress, known for Kona fer í stríð (2018), Case (2015) and Metalhead (2013). Much like she orchestrates her singers, Halla orchestrates her eco-agenda, and the confluence of these parts is an absolutely genius fit. Halla is accompanied in her actions by a small trio of musicians, reminiscent of the troubadours in Cat Ballou. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda. But I did have to really map these scenes and I was very clear about it that I needed other actors – not as a stand-in, but real actors to act with me because I really wanted to deal with the other actor, so we rehearsed the scenes with Benedikt and we really mapped all the movements because we had to be able to do it exactly the same.

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