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‘Touch’ Review: A Search for a Lost Love Makes for A Heartrending Romantic Affair to Remember
In Baltasar Kormakur's 'Touch,' a widower with early-onset dementia embarks on a cross-continental trip to find his soulmate during the pandemic.
Director-co-writer Baltasar Kormákur ’s “ Touch,” based on Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson’s novel of the same name, expands on this swoon-worthy idea, elegantly crafting an achingly poignant story centered on an elderly man searching for his true love amidst a time of uncertainty. The lone action item on Kristofer’s to-do list is finding out what happened to Miko (Kôki), his first true love, who abandoned him half a century ago when he (played in his younger years by Kormákur’s son, Pálmi) was living in London. With a litany of action-heavy films on Kormákur’s resume, everything from shoot-em-ups like “2 Guns” and “Contraband” to survivalist stories like “Everest,” “Adrift,” and “Beast,” he might seem like an odd choice to paint a deeply layered portrait of complex adult circumstances where there’s no big set pieces other than the reveals.
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