Interesting Film

A character & social context study. A Danish priest scourges himself crossing the Icelandic tundra to reach a community to build a church (when he could have easily sailed there directly). It almost kills him.

What I found compelling about the drama was how both civilized and brutal, or at least brutally utilitarian, the community was.

The relationships between the main male characters were weighty, tense. As, I suppose, life on the frontier at times must have been. Not in a Hollywood flashy way, but in a flinty Nordic way.

A harsh Nordic morality play. I like not being pandered to, occasionally getting some cold water splashed in my face. This film does that, has that.