“It's alright. You'll become part of the grass and the flowers. It's beautiful.” – Ida (Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir)
A Danish priest, Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), sets out to build a church in a remote Icelandic region, promising to have it completed before the snow falls. What could go wrong when he has the mandate of Heaven? Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason charts Lucas’ journey, filled with the hubris of certainty and the arrogance of the colonist, with the appropriately-glacial pacing revealing a…
