The Love That Remains

The Love that Remains

A film by Hlynur Pálmason. Starts June 18th at the fsk. In Icelandic with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

The Knight, a spe­cial exhi­bi­ti­on of pho­to­graphs from Hlynur Pálmason’s Joan of Arc, will be on dis­play in the Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater to cele­bra­te the release of The Love That Remains. Free to the public.

Charting the gra­du­al evo­lu­ti­on of a fami­ly in the midst of an irrepa­ra­ble frac­tu­re, The Love That Remains is a poignant, cris­ply poin­til­li­stic dome­stic dra­ma that obser­ves life’s chan­ges with humor and whim­sy, set against the maje­s­tic, ever-shif­ting Icelandic land­scape. Visual artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisher­man Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) were teenage swee­the­arts but have recent­ly grown apart, and Magnús has moved out of the house. As long as the new­ly estran­ged par­ents put on a good face, the children—and their ado­rable sheep­dog Panda (who won the pres­ti­gious Palme Dog award at Cannes)—seem to take the split in stri­de. Yet as Magnús beco­mes incre­asing­ly ali­en­ated from his dome­stic life, harsh rea­li­ty can’t help but bubble to the sur­face. Hlynur Pálmason’s fol­low-up to his aus­te­re 19th-cen­tu­ry dra­ma Godland is a con­stant­ly sur­pri­sing film with an imma­cu­la­te sen­se of framing and pacing—and an evo­ca­ti­ve, dul­cet pia­no score by Harry Hunt—dotted with idio­syn­cra­tic flights of fan­cy that never detract from the cen­tral emo­tio­nal authenticity.

Credits:

IS/FR/DK/SE 2025, 109 Min., islän­di­sche OmU
Regie & Kamera:  Hlynur Pálmason
Schnitt: Julius Krebs Damsbo
mit: Saga Garðarsdóttir, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Anders Mossling, Sverrir Gudnason

Trailer:
The Love that Remains (Trailer OmU) – Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Guðnason
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