ljósbrot / when the light breaks (w&d rúnar rúnarsson)

My friend Mr Plester should see this film, as it has a scene of two people eating hotdogs in Reykjavik. Apart from that, When The Lights Breaks could be described as a tender study of grief. A young man, Diddi, is killed in a car crash.  He was about to tell his girlfriend that he was leaving her for Una, played by Elín Hall. Her Bowie-esque disposition (cerca Man Who Fell to Earth) holds the film together with an assured performance that shows the nuanced complexities of both revealing and hiding your feelings at the same time. When the girlfriend arrives, Una struggles to hide her secret. Her curious, near-androgynous look masks her vulnerability. She’s both hyper-human and a-human at the same time. In a film blessed with sympathetic performances, hers stands apart; she flies and the rest follow, like geese, in her wake.