The Love That Remains

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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 try to hold onto 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, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

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The Love That Remains gently drifts through a melancholic yet quietly humorous portrait of love and separation with its exquisite Icelandic imagery and tender performances buoying a deliberately mild, fragmentary narrative.

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Teresa Xie

NPR

Feb 10

Pálmason's The Love That Remains doesn't attempt to make a grand thesis on love and family, but successfully captures both its smallness and precious enormity.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Feb 9

This is a delicate, confidently imagined fiction made with the eyes of a naturalist, the heart of a believer in family, and a sensibility with room for both the Pythonesque and the Lynchian.

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Thelma Adams

AARP Movies for Grownups

Jan 30

4/5

Well-acted with stunning cinematography, The Love That Remains is both emotionally astute and stubbornly mysterious, a complete original to be experienced rather than consumed.

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

7h

A-

Pálmason pivots from the period missionary expedition of "Godland," to an intimate family drama, the films connected by a main character's artistic pursuits...This is a family that continually ebbs and flows like the ocean which surrounds it.

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Ria Dhull

Spectrum Culture

Feb 2

Pálmason’s vision might have been clarified with more thought put into the film’s cinematography and a heavier hand in the editing room.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Jan 31

The melancholic screenplay is heavily fragmented, yet there’s a tenderness and intimacy to the storytelling that deepens its emotional impact.

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daniel l

@Dliebo Feb 7

I am posting this as a favor to the human race and anyone who reads this. I enjoy going to the movies and try and find something to enjoy even if I am not in love with one. This movie is a complete and utter waste of time and money. A set of disjointed scenes meant to fill 90 minutes, void of any plot whatsoever, nothing emotionally tugging, just pretentious and horrible movie making at its worse. Scene after scene with nothing building, nothing notable, nothing connected or connecting, and it becomes seriously annoying after around 15 minutes when u realize that there is nothing even slightly compelling here. Please. Don't bother.

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Hlynur Pálmason

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Saga Garðarsdóttir

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Sverrir Gudnason

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Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir

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Þorgils Hlynsson

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Grímur Hlynsson

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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 try to hold onto 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, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Producer: Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson
Screenwriter: Hlynur Pálmason
Distributor: Janus Films
Production Co: Still Vivid, Snowglobe Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Icelandic
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 30, 2026, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $46.4K
Runtime: 1h 49m