Criterion Premieres: The Love That Remains
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 5:33 pm
Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, The Love That Remains asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure? Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland. Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.
INCLUDES
Meet the Filmmakers: Hlynur Pálmason, a Criterion Channel original interview
Joan of Arc (2025), a companion film by Pálmason
Trailer
Notes by film programmer and critic David Schwartz