The Love That Remains
Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, The Love That Remains asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure? Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland. Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.
Criterion Premieres is a selection of new theatrical films presented on Blu-ray and DVD, released in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Hlynur Pálmason, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Joan of Arc (2025), a companion film by Pálmason
- Trailer
- Notes by film programmer and critic David Schwartz
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Hlynur Pálmason, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Joan of Arc (2025), a companion film by Pálmason
- Trailer
- Notes by film programmer and critic David Schwartz
Cast
- Saga Garðarsdóttir
- Anna
- Sverrir Guðnason
- Magnús
- Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
- Ída
- Grímur Hlynsson
- Grímur
- Þorgils Hlynsson
- Þorgils
- Ingvar Sigurðsson
- Pálmi
- Anders Mossling
- Martin
Credits
- Director
- Hlynur Pálmason
- Screenwriter
- Hlynur Pálmason
- Director of photography
- Hlynur Pálmason
- Editor
- Julius Krebs Damsbo
- Production design
- Frosti Friðriksson
- Producer
- Anton Máni Svansson
- Producer
- Katrina Pors
- Costume design
- Nina Grønlund
- Sound designer
- Björn Viktorsson
- Hair and makeup
- Katrine Tersgov
- Composer
- Harry Hunt
Trailer for The Love That Remains
