Ástin Sem Eftir Er (The Love That Remains). 2025. Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France. Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. With Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Guðnason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir. DCP courtesy Janus Films. In Icelandic, Swedish, French; English subtitles. 109 min.
Icelanders, at least in Icelandic movies, can be counted on for eccentric charm and a deadpan acceptance of life’s mysteries. This is especially true of Hlynur Pálmason’s touching and comical family drama The Love That Remains, which muses on the durability of a marriage after many long years in the starkly elemental land of fire and ice. Artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) try to keep up appearances for the sake of the children, relying in great measure on their sheepdog Panda to provide the family with comic relief (in a performance that quite deservedly won the Cannes “Palme Dog” award this year). In his previous feature, Godland, Pálmason ventured into uncomfortable questions of faith and mortality; this film, right down to Harry Hunt’s elegant and deceptively simple piano score, only deepens the humanity of his cinema.
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