MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Extinction rebellion in Iceland
MARIA DUARTE recommends an entertaining yet instructive eco drama
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Woman at War (12A)
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
WITH a deceptive lightness of touch, co-writer and director Benedikt Erlingsson deals memorably with the serious threat to the environment in Woman at War.
Set in Iceland, it centres on 50-year-old Halla (Halldora Geirhardsdottir) who declares a one-woman war on the local aluminium industry in a bid to protect her beloved highlands.
She starts off small-scale by causing power cuts but as she grows bolder she slowly progresses to industrial sabotage, which brings the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building an aluminium smelter to a halt.
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