After the global success of his Un Certain Regard winner Rams, director GrĂmur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. Bitterly funny and deeply affecting, The County plays out a timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine and Hákonarson’s dry Nordic humor.
When we first meet Inga (a brilliant ArndĂs Hrönn EgilsdĂłttir, in a star-making performance), she is midwifing a calf, in the middle of another back-breaking day on the small, nearly bankrupt dairy farm she shares with her husband, Reynir (Hinrik Ă“lafsson).
After Reynir’s sudden and suspicious death, Inga learns the true extent of both her powerlessness and her late husband’s involvement with the co-op’s schemings. With an eye to the future, and with no other option, she aims to chip away at the co-op’s domination.
Icelandic with English Subtitles
DIRECTOR: GrĂmur Hákonarson SCREENWRITER: GrĂmur Hákonarson CAST: ArndĂs Hrönn EgilsdĂłttir, SigurĂ°ur SigurjĂłnsson, Sveinn Ă“lafur Gunnarsson | 
