Grimur Hakonarson

Our fourth dispatch from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (here’s our first, our second, and our third) skews heavily Canadian: Atom Egoyan’s latest, lurid work, Guest of Honour; Matthew Rankin’s Midnight Madness entry and Guy Maddin riff, The Twentieth Century; Calvin Thomas and…

I don’t know much about the history of the co-op farming system in Iceland— which began in the 19th century and persisted for decades before largely collapsing in the 1990’s— and Grimur Hakonarson’s new film, The County, doesn’t do much to change that. Loosely…