Woman at War is an Icelandic comedy directed by Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men) and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as a lone eco-terrorist trying to balance motherhood with saving the planet.
Simon Morris: There can't be many places that would consider New Zealand one of the bigger movie-making nations, but possibly Iceland - population about 340,000 - is one of them.
Nevertheless, the North Sea island - best known for providing the chilly locations for Game of Thrones - makes a surprising number of movies, including the comedy-drama Woman at War.
Lead actor Halla is certainly a heroine for 2019. She's a middle-aged woman who divides her time between conducting an amateur choir and a secret life as an eco-warrior.
This woman is at war with the mighty Rio Tinto corporation, who are one of the major investors in Iceland, while at the same time, according to Halla, have declared War on the Planet.
So Halla feels it incumbent on her to Do Something and Make a Difference. You go, girl!
Her secret weapon, the film suggests, is that, as an older woman, she's all but invisible - particularly to the Powers that Be, who've enlisted the police and the army to track down the mysterious "Mountain Woman".
I'm not sure how typically Icelandic Woman at War is, but even by the standards of its Nordic neighbours - Sweden, Norway and Finland - it's deadpan eccentric.
Halla may be a lone Woman Warrior, she's never truly alone.
If she's not being accompanied, literally as well as figuratively, by one three-piece band - accordion, drums and sousaphone - there's every possibility she'll be backed up by another trio - three female singers from, I gather, the Ukraine.
The Ukraine connection needs a little clarification. Four years ago, Halla put in a bid to adopt a child, backed up by her twin sister. Bear with me here.
Halla had forgotten all about it - until now, just as the forces of the Military-Industrial Complex start to close in on her.
I assume there's some musical imagery going on here. Maybe the Ukraine ladies are adding their own female element to the eco-warrior Oompah band.
All right, I admit I'm floundering a little here.
Along the way, Halla is offered plenty of more tangible support - by her New Age sister, by the choir, by the youth of Iceland who are fascinated by her crusade against Big Business.
More practically, she's given help by a farmer who claims to be a distant cousin. The joke being that, in a country as small and old as Iceland, pretty much everyone there is everyone else's cousin.
Woman at War shares the same deadpan humour of some of our own rural comedies, and it benefits enormously from the lead performance of an actress with the challenging name Halldora Geirharths-dottir, playing more than one role.
But how whole-heartedly you embrace Woman at War may depend on how comfortable you are with the whole eco-warrior thing.
Taking the law into your own hands - in this case, blowing up electric power pylons - requires a more confident view of your own infallibility than that of the rest of us.
In Icelandic with English subtitles.
