A Letter From Helga: Film Review

A woman looks at the horizon outdoors in a still from the film A Letter From Helga

Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir’s A Letter To Helga is a lyrical, beautiful film about love and regret, but also the power of legacy and belonging in 1940s Iceland.

Band (2022): Glasgow Film Festival Review

Three girls stand at an airport in a still from Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir’s film Band

Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir’s Band is an eclectic documentary with the stylings of a fiction film, chronicling a make-or-break year for an Icelandic female punk collective.

Gone Girl (2014): Film Review

Gone Girl invites us to witness a vile couple whose love has faded away in this thrilling marital satire by David Fincher. Is marriage paradise or is it a prison?