A White, White Day
International Arthouse
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1h 48m
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason | 109 mins | 2019
Hlynur Pálmason’s second film opens with the Icelandic proverb that gives "A White, White Day" its title: “On such days when everything is white, and there is no longer any difference between the earth and the sky, then the dead can talk to us who are still living.” Haunted by the recent loss of his wife, a middle-aged cop (Ingvar Sigurðsson, who would later return in Pálmason’s "Godland") begins to suspect that his late spouse was having an affair with a neighbor—a hunch that snowballs into an all-consuming obsession. Like "Winter Brothers" before it, "A White, White Day" reveals its tricks with precise deliberation, puncturing its slow-burn meditation on grief with galvanizing excursions into a far darker thriller.
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