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A White, White, Day
 Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur 

Hlynur Pálmason  •   Iceland/Denmark/Sweden  • ​  2019
109 mins  •  HD  •  M violence, offensive language & nudity
​In Icelandic with English subtitles


Sifting through his late wife’s things, a widower makes a distressing discovery, sparking a spiral of events in search of the truth.

“Brings to mind a cinematic version of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream… grimly hypnotic… powerful and freshly thought out.” – Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

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


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