Two by Hlynur Pálmason
Born in a fishing town in southeastern Iceland, Hlynur Pálmason trained as a visual artist before embarking on a film career. Accordingly, his work often bears a painterly quality, using the gelid tundras of his homeland as a backdrop to stage existential quarrels—between beauty and brutality, between life and death, between the spiritual and the profane. This collection comprises Pálmason’s first two features: his barbed-wire debut "Winter Brothers", and its similarly rattling follow-up, "A White, White Day".
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Winter Brothers
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason | 93 min | 2017
Winner of four awards at its Locarno premiere, Hlynur Pálmason’s debut feature introduces the traits that would come to define his future work (notably, the 2022 western "Godland")—fertile interrogations of masculinity and its entailing savagery unfoldi... -
A White, White Day
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...
