quotVeteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport
both in their professional and daily lives
between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
The heartfelt comedy follows Sophie (Sunny Sandler), who is very excited to have landed the lead role in her high school musical. However, her happiness is overshadowed by her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer.
社运者的成母之路！无人能阻挡进击的母亲！五十岁的汉拉，是一位耐心、性格和善的合唱团老师，但她除了老师的身份外，还是位激进的社会运动者。一通电话，带来期待已久的好消息，即将成为人母的她，面对冰岛境内破坏环境的工业发 展，以及孩子的到来，即将成为母亲的她，该如何面对这些生命中的困难与意外？
来自冰岛，曾参与拉斯冯提尔《老板我最大》演出的班尼迪克艾灵森演而优则导，《进击的大妈》为他的第三部长片作品。首部执导的电影作品《爱马士》当年入选金马奇幻影展，深受台湾影迷的喜爱。
2018年10月31日，导演本尼迪克·埃灵格松凭借《战中女人》斩获2018年北欧理事会电影奖（Nordic Council Film Prize）。
