A White, White Day

Film - 2019

6,8

63.7K

A White, White Day it's a movie with Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Elma Stefania Agustsdottir Full cast. Directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Original title Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur, runtime 109 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Riccardo Simoncini

We often define ourselves based on the relationships that mark our daily lives, compared to the role we play every day in the world. Thus the protagonist Ingimundur, after losing his wife in a car accident, answering the question "Who are you?", says: "I am a father, a grandfather, a policeman" and only later admits "I am a widower". Already in these words the dark driving force of the protagonist is hidden: the continuous and obsessive search for others, to define himself in categories that mask that single devastating expression "I am alone". That extreme condition which seems even more unacceptable in the immense void of Iceland. Yes, because we are what we are also through something that is distinct from us, which depends on all those people with whom a shared reality has been built. But sometimes some pieces of that world shatter. And a wife can die suddenly in a car accident. Leaving an equally immense void to fill. Thus Ingimundur goes in an instant from being able to define himself as "husband" to having to attribute himself and get used to the epithet of "widower". In these moments that individuality mentioned above is put to the test, becoming tormented, if not pathological. Because a part of us and our essence is destroyed. Pervaded by a restlessness that always seems on the verge of exploding, this second work represents the elaboration of a mourning with multiple symbolic and metaphorical outcomes in a desolate Iceland. Disseminated throughout the film in a fragmentary manner, they are often not very cohesive, incapable of leading to a unified vision that includes all those signs mentioned, but never explored in depth. Reaching a single state of magical suggestion, which certainly fascinates, but does not entirely convince. Thus that family home, which Ingimundur obsessively wants to build and renovate, represents his desperate attempt to fill the physical void left by the disappearance of his wife. Building something capable of Read all

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In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.