DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Hlynur Pálmason
PRODUCER: Anton Máni Svansson
PRODUCTION CO: Danish Film Institute, Danmarks Radio (DR), Film i Väst
PHOTOGRAPHY: Maria von Hausswolff
EDITOR: Julius Krebs Damsbo
MUSIC: Edmund Finnis
WITH: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (Ingimundur), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (Salka), Hilmir Snær Guðnason (Olgeir), Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir (Ingimundur's wife), Elma Stefanía Ágústsdóttir (Elin), Björn Ingi Hilmarsson (Trausti), Haraldur Ari Stefánsson (Stefán)​

FESTIVALS: Cannes

REVIEW

“A taciturn former policeman in a small Icelandic enclave grows more complex before our eyes in the visually arresting and emotionally rewarding A White, White Day. Crusty widower Ingimundur… channels his grief into renovating a house whose isolated location shows off nature posing in a cycling-through-the-seasons medley of changing climate conditions in ever-exquisite light. Ingimundur loved his late wife unconditionally and has little patience for the grief counselor he is obliged to see once a week. But while going through a box of his wife’s things, his cop instincts kick in and the already cranky man starts behaving erratically – although there’s definitely a startling method to his madness.

Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason (Locarno prize-winner Winter Brothers) delivers a leisurely but never boring tale of hidden feelings percolating in a splendidly varied landscape. From sharp straight cuts to uncomfortably long awkward moments, a perfectly controlled sense of place permeates every frame.”

– Lisa Nesselson, Screen Daily

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Auckland   
Monday, 21 March, 6:15pm

​Palmerston North     
Wednesday, 6 April, 6:00pm

Hamilton
Monday, 9 May, 8.00pm

Nelson
Tuesday, 31 May, 6pm

​Canterbury     
Monday, 20 June, 7.00pm

​Queenstown     
Tuesday, 30 August, 8:15pm

Tauranga
Thursday, 1 December, 6:30pm

Whanganui   
Monday, 7 November, 7.00pm

​Dunedin   
Wednesday, 16 November, 7:30pm

Carterton
Friday, 9 December, 7.30pm

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