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Godland
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality. From TMDB
94 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 18, 2026 · How this works
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Godland is a 2022 drama film, directed by Hlynur Pálmason, starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne and Ingvar E. Sigurðsson.
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- posts span Dec 21, 2022 to Oct 18, 2026
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60 of 94 · most liked firstGodland (2022) is a movie about how icelanders are inherently evil and deserve their gorgeous barren rocks. My review is that this makes them europe's Colorado
positive · AI labelView post →An explorer documenting his journey. PLEASE HELP ME BUILD UP MY BLUESKY FOLLOWERS BY LIKING AND SHARING THIS!! (This was heavily inspired by a film called Godland, which follows a Danish priest in the 19th century, who documents his attempt at spreading the word of God to Iceland.)
neutral · AI labelView post →First watch: Godland (2022), written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Great drama about a Danish pastor sent to a remote region of Iceland to establish a parish, a journey that becomes a game of survival and test of faith. A really immersive, transportive film, enjoyed courtesy of Arte
positive · AI labelView post →A film I went on about a fair bit when it came out, which I think is really special but which nobody bloody watched because you're all idiots (/it got a tiny cinema release) has landed on BBC iPlayer. Watch GODLAND! Phone off, full attention please. Thank me later
positive · AI labelView post →A new Around the Long Fire! For once we’re mostly on topic as we finish the fantastic Arrow-Odd’s Saga, I complete classic Icelandic novel Independent People, and we talk about the amazing Icelandic film Godland! www.abnormalmapping.com/around-the-l...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Hlynur Pálmason, 2025). A much smaller, more personal film than GODLAND, but strangely compelling in its own unique way. A quietly affecting family drama about a marital separation that the husband seems unwilling / unable to accept. (1/3) #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched for this week's #LetterboxdFriday. Battleship Potemkin was a first-time watch and lived up to its reputation. I've seen Godland and 20th Century Women multiple times. Both films are superb and continue to resonate. Also, trying to watch at least one film for #JanuaryGiallo!
positive · AI labelView post →Godland the best movie I saw last year no contest and I still think about it all the time
positive · AI labelView post →The latest film from acclaimed director of GODLAND is a bittersweet, funny, and surprising portrait of a family coming apart at the seams. Anna and Magnus’s marriage is in breakdown: while she longs for a breakthrough in her art career, he sleeps on the trawler where he works as a fisherman.
neutral · AI labelView post →a few thoughts on Hlynur Pálmason's Godland (2022), which I enjoyed very much last week letterboxd.com/jamesewand/f...
positive · AI labelView post →Watched 'Godland' on the BBC iPlayer last night: a truly epic film, with stunning cinematography that doesn't overwhelm the human story. Some questions are answered, others left hanging. But of course Iceland itself is the true star.
positive · AI labelView post →A tremendous film, beautiful and visceral in broadly equal measure. For UK viewers, GODLAND is free to view on the IPlayer for the next 5 months. #FilmSky #Films www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
positive · AI labelView post →I’m about to watch the rest of a film called Godland (BBCiplayer) Icelandic director, beautiful cinematography of Iceland not sure if it’s in Danish or Icelandic but 19th century Danish missionary travelling to Iceland and getting rather distracted from his purpose m.imdb.com/title/tt1962...
neutral · AI labelView post →top 10 2020s Days (Tsai) Memoria (Weerasethakul) All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Jackson) Viet and Nam (Truong) On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Nyoni) Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi) La Chimera (Rohrwacher) Unrest (Schäublin) Godland (Pálmason) Castration Movie (Weard)
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night we watched the Danish movie Godland, set almost entirely in Iceland and with (sparse) dialogue in Danish and Icelandic. Over two hours of it. It was beautiful. Dire. Scenic. Bleak. Amazing. Frustrating. Graphic (animal slaughter). Serene. Extremely weird in places. Would I recommend it? Hard to say, I reckon many wouldn't have made it as far as the church building site before bailing. Most of the movie has no dialogue, it documents the long drawn-out journey with truly astounding…
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the best one. I’m frantically googling to see if there’s a movie called Ideasland. Or Numbersland. Divinityland? Maybe it’s the Danish-Icelandic historical drama, Godland. Pythagoreans? Gnostics? Leibniz? This is better than a cryptic crossword clue. (I sort of hope it’s easy & I spaced it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Letterboxd is down which means I have no real outlet to gush about how good Godland is. Such a beautiful (yet bleak) film that can't have been difficult to find a stunning location to shoot a scene on.
positive · AI labelView post →Bhutan, Spain, Iceland: Why these Oscar entries for international film are worth a watch. cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/movies/t/665349 > Spain's 'Society of the Snow,' Bhutan's 'The Monk and the Gun,' and Iceland's 'Godland' all make their case for the Academy Awards shortlist. The 2023 contenders for the international film Oscar are filled with tales of real-life struggles from the Ukraine war (Ukraine’s “20 Days in Mariupol”), the Holocaust (United Kingdom’s “The Zone of…
neutral · AI labelView post →I had GODLAND on my list at one point, but it just missed out. A tremendous film. I liked his latest, but it's very different...
positive · AI labelView post →The latest film from acclaimed director of GODLAND is a bittersweet, funny, and surprising portrait of a family coming apart at the seams. Anna and Magnus’s marriage is in breakdown: while she longs for a breakthrough in her art career, he sleeps on the trawler where he works as a fisherman.
neutral · AI labelView post →Godland truly a great fucking film, hangs up there as one of my favorites, easily the best film of the 2020s, cried again rewatching it tonight
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Godland (2024) 📽️ This movie was almost by entirely vibes based and I loved that. Absolutely gorgeous, stylistic and captivating. The natural scenery was unreal, the way it was filmed was so authentic and a good story to boot. Justice 4 Ragnar. 8/10 #filmsky #Iceland #Danish #religion
positive · AI labelView post →Godland. A film that makes you really want to visit Iceland. Or…or not. #Godland #Bbciplayer
neutral · AI labelView post →have you seen the film 'Godland?' your photo reminded me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched #Godland, still processing it, which is usually a good sign I liked it. A priest goes to a place, is is twisted and corrupted by the place, then becomes part of the place; the entirety of the film is the juxtaposition of terrible beauty in all its shapes and forms. There is apparently a colonialism aspect to it but I don't understand that Icelandic history well enough to recognize it. #cinemastodon https://www.criterionchannel.com/godland
positive · AI labelView post →Best movie dog of 2023? I was all-in on Messi/Snoop from ANATOMY OF A FALL, but then this beaut from GODLAND snuck in
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the Icelandic film Godland last night. It was remarkable. Eerie and harrowing and breathtakingly filmed. Highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →What a film this is. On the iPlayer for a week or so. Godland: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028dw8 via @bbciplayer
positive · AI labelView post →Inspired by those two Danish/Norwegian films (both perfection), I’m moving to a Nordic Danish/Icelandic film called GODLAND, which is beautiful and something I also think anyone who likes movies should watch. here we go
positive · AI labelView post →You've heard the word of God, but have you heard the word of Dog?* *Niche post for fans of Icelandic/Danish art films only #godland #volaðaland
neutral · AI labelView post →The second was 'The Love That Remains' by Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason. Loved his earlier film 'Godland', but this isn't quite as good - felt like a film that lost confidence in itself at the end, tho' fantastic imagery, acting etc for two thirds of the movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQ1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Beautiful film The Love That Remains, a surprisingly light turn by the director of Godland (also great) - stunningly shot on 35mm, got to be seen in a theatre
positive · AI labelView post →Jeez Louise. Watch this film, I think. My review of the Icelandic film Godland from 2022. boxd.it/coUsBN
positive · AI labelView post →I enjoyed his previous film, Godland. Rather Herzogian.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Godland, a movie filled with contempt for Denmark, so I decided to watch my favorite MST3K which shows Denmark at its best.
negative · AI labelView post →My friend showed me the Danish-Icelandic movie "Godland." If you like some Death Stranding scenery or liked "There Will Be Blood" I suggest it. Same kind of frontier-damaged priest character, but the story is told from his perspective not the bastard's XD
positive · AI labelView post →Godland (2022, d. Palmason) is an excellent, beautiful film - the nature cinematography reminds me of Aguirre, the Wrath of God - in which a priest travels from Denmark to Iceland, taking the land route, to establish a church. The priest is an asshole, and the plot works from there.
positive · AI labelView post →I really liked THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, a very different film to GODLAND!
positive · AI labelView post →The Icelandic film Godland (Volaða land , 2022) directed by Hlynur Pálmason with stunning cinematography by Maria von Hausswolff is absolutely mesmerizing. Tragic. Thought provoking. How little and irrelevant people’s ego seem in such vastness. Highly recommended. youtu.be/0Hot2tpLLOc?...
positive · AI labelView post →Same! Godland was my first Pálmason film then I HAD to everything else!! I will be watching anything he puts out!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Godland and thinking about religious literacy. The film asks what happens when religious authority arrives carrying the language, institutions, and assumptions of colonial power. Not for classroom use, but worth educators sitting with. #religiousliteracy Image: Courtesy of Janus Films.
neutral · AI labelView post →my main rec is probably Godland, 2022 Icelandic film about a Danish priest in the 19th century having a real miserable time. it's awesome. for something shorter, i watched a 2000 documentary on there called Rupert Remembers that i thought was sooo neat in exploring trans history in 70s/80s Toronto
positive · AI labelView post →Back in the news. For me, Palmason's best is still A WHITE, WHITE DAY, but this is right after that. (mixed feelings about GODLAND: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/godl...)
neutral · AI labelView post →His score for the film Godland was s-tier, similar vibes to this one on bc, pretty much just solo sax and a wall of verb alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/album/swimmi...
neutral · AI labelView post →GODLAND is an extraordinary film. Historical setting, epic scale, intense emotions. It’s very different to this new one, which seems much ‘smaller’ and intimate. He’s a fascinating filmmaker. (I think his daughter appears in both of these films!)
positive · AI labelView post →In the meantime, Emil has been studying rifle-shooting videos after collecting a rifle in a debt. An early fine film from the director of Godland. 2/2
neutral · AI labelView post →EVERYONE should watch Godland, one of the absolute sickest movies ever made with probably the greatest cinematography in movie history
positive · AI labelView post →@autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Got around to viewing Godland this week. Just need to say it was a banger of a movie and you guys created a banger of a pod discussing it!
positive · AI labelView post →#LFF LOVE THAT REMAINS - Excellent family drama punctuated with mordant humour & dreamlike moments. I loved Palmason’s previous film, Godland, and this is similarly alive with the rhythms & texture of nature. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →The Mission was certainly conjured up in my mind when reading your descriptor of Godland. I haven’t seen that whole film for a long time though I used the soundtrack and a few clips from it in my classes for years.
neutral · AI labelView post →iPlayer 📽️ A Cock & Bull Story Blue Jean Bringing Up Baby Brooklyn Bullet Boy Citizen Kane The Commitments Coriolanus The Edge of the World Godland Gosford Park Hideous Kinky Jude The King's Speech La La Land Malcolm X Paddington 1&2 Raging Bull (trailer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUp6... 🎞️ Three Faces
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a film last night & thought about it quite a bit today. Godland. Danish / Icelandic. Spare, hard, cold (like me ha) & very good. Who wd be a missionary? What a shit task.
positive · AI labelView post →It does have that vibe, more inclined to its dialogues with the Western. I paired it in class with the Danish film Godland to think about the question of settler violence.
neutral · AI labelView post →366 Days of Film. Day 29 - Godland. "You look miserable," says a man to a priest, who is travelling across barren unforgiving plains to build a church. For the most part he is, but you won't be: this is another beautifully shot movie set amongst the mountains of Iceland. Not sure about the ending.
positive · AI labelView post →I'll be watching this tonight. Godland. About the conflict and downfall of a Sgt Howie-esque Danish colonial missionary sent to Iceland. The Danish title is 'Vanskabte Land': 'The disfigured (scabbed) land' en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godland...
neutral · AI labelView post →Godland is the best film I've seen in a good long time.
positive · AI labelView post →Godland is an extraordinary film. Loved it. Evergreen story telling and anyone could fall in love with the scenery.
positive · AI labelView post →Starting a two and a half hour long movie at 11:30pm because I know my ability to sleep is already fucked up tonight. Stand by for my Godland review at 2 AM
neutral · AI labelView post →This film just confirms what I've known for a long time: The more religious a person claims to be, the more evil he really is. They and their religions are to be avoided at all costs. Other than that, the acting was fine and the cinematography was gorgeous.
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) Godland (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.2 Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jacob Lohmann, Hilmar Guðjónsson, Ingvar Þórðarson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
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