‘The Love That Remains’ Review: ‘Godland’ Director Hlynur Pálmason’s Latest Is Intimate, Poetic & A Little Distancing [Cannes]

Before we even see a face, Hlynur Pálmason’s “The Love That Remains” immediately establishes the film’s gentle poetry. A crane plucks the roof off a building with the ease of a child dismantling a doll house, the roof swinging as it exposes the sky. It’s an apt metaphor for the collapse of a home in the wake of the separation that plagues one family, and the possibilities that could be in reach.

Continue reading ‘The Love That Remains’ Review: ‘Godland’ Director Hlynur Pálmason’s Latest Is Intimate, Poetic & A Little Distancing [Cannes] at The Playlist.