Newcastle Film Society

Lucas, a young Lutheran priest from Denmark, travels to Iceland to oversee the building of a new parish in a remote coastal town. His interest in the landscape and its people wanes, while carrying cumbersome photographic material with him to record what he sees, as the journey across the terrain becomes more and more treacherous.

An antagonistic relationship with his tough Icelandic guide then challenges the arrogant priest’s increasingly deluded views, but it’s the beauty and terror of the natural world that cause the greatest spiritual disruption.

This is a … “film of extraordinary craft and power … Striking for the economy and delicacy of its aesthetic.”