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Godland
Vanskabte land
2022 · Film · 143 min
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
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For other relatively recent movies I'd add:
> Evil Does Not Exist > Godland > The Beast > The Worst Person in the World > Misericordia > The Banshees of Inisherin > Amanda [0] > Afire [1] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18469872/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440619/
Some movies benefit greatly from having room (runtime) to breathe.
Historical epics like Laurence of Arabia, Ben Hurr, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus immediately come to mind. Their length adds to their "epic" character.
I can think of plenty of films that are overlong and suffer for it too of course. A recent example is the Danish film Godland. There were people literally asleep by the end of that one in the cinema showing I attended. I wished I could have done the same.