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Rúnar Rúnarsson Talks About Grief in Un Certain Regard Opener ‘When the Light Breaks’


Runar Runarsson delves into grief with his Cannes on Un Certain Regard film ‘When the Light Breaks.’

In his fourth feature “When the Light Breaks,” Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson (“Volcano,” “Sparrows,” Oscar-nominated short “The Last Farm”) starts with a heartbreaking tragedy. There are still things that unite us, even though there was a middle-aged man behind the camera, which they realized only halfway through the shoot [laughs]. But when something, like a box, has been standing on a shelf for a long time and then you move it, it leaves an empty space.

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