The Love That Remains

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly

The Love That Remains

Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple tries to hold on to the afterimages of a life together, and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion.

Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to this gorgeous, intimate, and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, set amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

Learn more about this film festival darling in JBFC Film Programmer Ian LoCascio’s The Love That Remains Preview Club Wrap-Up on the JBFC Blog.

"As the title suggests, this isn’t a film focused simply on the ruins of a relationship so much as one with an eye on what’s worth keeping."
Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal
"Wise and lyrical and strange, The Love That Remains thrives on its profound understanding of each family’s individual oddness, and the incremental confusion with which growing children regard their parents, as their elders grow smaller and more flawed by the day."
Guy Lodge, Variety

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