Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason’s third feature, following his gripping “A White, White Day,” was the Cannes stunner “Godland,” a slowburn that slowly revealed its shattering cards.
The more the film went along, the more the main protagonist lost his faith, and sanity. The visuals were striking, but so was the ambition of the storytelling. It plays like a Herzogian vision of madness.
In a new press release, Arte France revealed that it will co-finance Pálmason's next film, to be shot next fall. "On Land and Sea" will tell the story of of a family who, at the turn of the 19th century, transformed their house into a raft and set sail in search of a new place to live.