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Film round-up: April 6, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Godland, Leonor Will Never Die, Ride On, and Lola
MISSION: Elliott Crosset Hove in Godland
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Godland (12A)
Directed by Hlynur Palmason
★★★
SET in the late 19th century when Iceland was under Danish rule, this bleak, slow-burning drama explores the differences between the two countries, in their temperaments and their languages as well as religious belief and notions of mortality.
The film, written and directed by Hlynur Palmason, follows a young idealistic Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) who is sent to a remote Icelandic area to build a church, lead the congregation and photograph the local people.
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