In preparation for Hlynur Pálmason’s new film, The Love That Remains, showing in VIFF, check out his impressive second film, an intense psychological drama (showing in tandem with his follow up, the epic Godland).
Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurðsson, deeply unsettling) is a former police chief in an isolated Icelandic community tormented by his wife’s car-accident death. As he sublimates his anguish by pointlessly renovating his home, that torment evolves into suspicion that she was cheating on him with a younger colleague. And that suspicion, in turn, evolves into obsession…
Pálmason has the rare ability to evoke the psychological by finding objective correlatives in his mise en scène, whether its by showing Ingimundur inadvertently frightening his granddaughter with a morbid fairy tale, or his acting out his grief and suspicion by overaggressive play on the sporting pitch. Pálmason’s control and unnerving insight are really something to marvel at.
Visually arresting and emotionally rewarding… Ingimundur is a fascinating character, splendidly portrayed.
Lisa Nesselson, Screen
Brings to mind a cinematic version of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream…. Bracing… grimly hypnotic… powerful and freshly thought out.
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
Hlynur Pálmason
Ingvar Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Elma Stefanía Ágústsdóttir, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Iceland/Denmark/Sweden
2019
In Icelandic with English subtitles
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Credits
Executive Producer
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, Hlynur Pálmason, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Producer
Anton Máni Svansson
Screenwriter
Hlynur Pálmason
Cinematography
Maria von Hausswolff
Editor
Julius Krebs Damsbo
Original Music
Edmund Finnis
Production Design
Hulda Helgadóttir
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