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‘When The Light Breaks’ Review: Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Original And Specific Vision Of Grief – Cannes Film Festival
Rúnar Rúnarsson's When The Light Breaks movie, which debuted at Cannes, is a portrait of muffled grief that feels true and poignant.
But when Diddi is killed in a freak fire in a road tunnel the next morning – a national disaster that claims upwards of a dozen lives – Una finds herself alone with her searing grief. He tells stories of the Icelandic young, their prickly family relationships in isolated communities, small but pungent aspirations, emotions writ large against a towering landscape. At times – when skipping us over the sea or taking us through the doomed tunnel – the light becomes an abstraction, heightened by the soaring voices of boy choirs that he already used to powerful effect in his 2015 film Sparrows.
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