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snaps and trashes the room, beating up two colleagues when they protest and locking them in the cells. Insulting his granddaughter Salka to get rid of her, he kidnaps Olgeir and takes him at gunpoint to a grave he's dug. He demands to know the truth about the affair, and what Olgeir thought of his wife. Olgeir obliges and Ingimundur yells in fury; Olgeir flees.
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praised the film's deliberate pacing that is preoccupied less with "ticking-clock storylines" but "slow cinema" often associated with foreign film directors outside the Hollywood bubble. It is described as "a terrifying, soul-rattling character study" which makes Pálmason one of "the most important
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After Elín gives him some of her mother's effects, he's shocked to find a video evidently recording an affair she had with a man called Olgeir Olafsson. He stakes out Olgeir's home and joins his football club. Bad weather closes the roads; while having a pixelated online therapy session, Ingimundur
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The next day Olgeir confronts and stabs Ingimundur, terrifying Salka. With a bleeding arm, Ingimundur carries the girl home through another white-out, apologising for being rude. Having finally acknowledged his grief and anger, he has a vision of his wife undressing and smiling at him as he weeps.
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Police chief Ingimundur, whose wife died in a car accident, reluctantly undergoes grief counselling. He works constantly on renovating a farm building for his daughter Elín's family, and sometimes looks after her daughter Salka.
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did not have a theatrical release in North America, but grossed $ 836,600 in other territories, against a production budget of $ 2.8 million.
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plunges viewers into the darkness of grief and jealousy, led by Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson's brilliantly layered performance." On
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praised the film for its "startling aesthetic choices" and "enigmatic opening sequence." Brian Tallerico, writing for
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List of Icelandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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List of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
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It was first theatrically released in Iceland on 6 September 2019 and on VOD by
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rating of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "
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A White White Day

Icelandic
Hlynur Pálmason
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Edmund Finnis
Cannes
Icelandic
Icelandic
drama film
Hlynur Pálmason
Critics' Week
Cannes Film Festival
Torino Film Festival
Icelandic entry
Best International Feature Film
92nd Academy Awards
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Critics' Week
Cannes Film Festival
Contemporary World Cinema
Toronto International Film Festival
Film Movement Video
review aggregator

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