Adam Nayman

The Love that Remains: a family breakdown is treated with a light tragicomic touch in Hlynur Pálmason’s impressive directorial balancing act

Hlynur Pálmason’s film about an Icelandic couple’s protracted separation is smaller in scale than his 19th-century priest-adventure epic Godland, but it is similarly spacious, drifting from “a realistic register towards the shoals of subjective psychodrama”.