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Party Film Sales Snaps Up Oscar-Nominated Runar Runarsson’s ‘When the Light Breaks,’ About ‘Young People Fighting Their Inner and Outer Demons’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The Party Film Sales has picked up Icelandic Oscar-nominated Rúnar Rúnarsson’s ‘When the Light Breaks,’ ahead of the Göteborg Film Festival.
His aim was “to create a narrative or image that encompasses the complex feelings on a day of losing someone unexpectedly, when reality is altered and the future changes at an instant,” he told Variety.“The film takes that moment and expands it. In the titular role as Una is Elín Hall (“Let Me Fall”), cast by the director for her natural dual ability to embody strength and tenderness, and “to show rather than tell, which provided the essence for the character,” said Rúnarsson. Equally impressed by Rúnarsson’s craftsmanship, Mike Downey who served as Croatian co-producer with Igor A.Nola, told Variety: “Rúnar works with uncompromising dedication and profoundly unadorned humanism, and ‘When the Light Breaks’ is no exception, as a film about young people fighting their inner and outer demons all the while trying their damnedest to be adults and trying to desperately connect.”
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