A choir teacher is living a double life in a new trailer for Icelandic comedy “Woman at War.” Fifty-one-year-old Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, “Prisoners”) spends her days keeping singers in key. When she’s not doing that, she’s making headlines for her work as an anonymous eco-terrorist known as “The Woman of the Mountain.” The environmental activist is desperate to take down the local aluminum industry, convinced that “we are the last generation that can stop the war against earth.”
The Woman of the Mountain’s protests have evolved from petty vandalism to industrial sabotage, and Hella is told it’s the perfect time for her to drop a manifesto. Her words rock the media, and the whole world is anxious to find out what The Woman of the Mountain will do next. But even she’s not sure what her next move will be: Hella discovers her application adopt a child has finally been accepted. Will she risk losing the girl — and the possibility of being arrested — to continue work on her most ambitious mission to date?
“Woman at War” made its world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. An English-language remake, set in the American West, is in the works. Jodie Foster is attached to direct and star.
“Woman at War” will open March 1 in NY and LA with a national expansion to follow.
