in A Letter From Helga by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
jury comment:
From the first moment Iceland’s Thorvaldur David Kristjansson appears on screen in Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir’s “A Letter From Helga”, he emanates charisma and completely inhabits the role of a love-sick farmer, raging with passion for an aspiring poetess, while restrained by the mores of 1940s rural Iceland. He combines a robust appearance with a vulnerability, which draws the audience to him, and keeps them on his side.
