Godland

At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and to photograph its people. But the deeper he penetrates into the inner of this imposing place, the further away he diverts from his purpose, his mission and his morals. One of the most sensational films that premiered in this year's Cannes (Un Certain Regard competition), the mystic Godland by Icelander Hlynur Pálmason, poses every huge supernatural and existential question (human's place within nature and the universe, faith and fear of God, the quest for what connects us with the Other, reconciliation with death as a means of overcoming agony), utilizing an impressive film discourse that reminds us from Terrence Malick to Dreyer and Bergman, and from (the similarly thematic) Silence by Martin Scorcese to the magnificent Calvary by John Michael McDonaugh. A film experience that one more so lives through than merely watches, but made for the big screen, despite its overall magnitude.