Somehow I missed Rams Grímur Hákonarson’s 2015 film about Icelandic sheep farmers which won great plaudits. The County has similarly caught the critics’ attention.
Like Rams it is set in rural Iceland. Reynir (Hinrik Ólafsson) and Inga (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) own a remote dairy farm, although as we later learn ‘owning’ is a misnomer as everything belongs to the Co-op. […]