A Wider Angle Film Series: A WHITE, WHITE DAY

For March, A Wider Angle, our monthly film series highlighting independent global cinema, will screen the 2019 dramatic thriller A White White Day, written and directed by Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason. The film took home the Best Film prize at the Torino Film Festival, and was also selected as Iceland's entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards.

In a remote Icelandic town, a semi-retired police chief, Ingimundur, mourns his deceased wife, who was tragically killed in a car accident, while keeping himself busy with a seemingly endless renovation of a farm house for his daughter's family (including a precocious granddaughter whom he often babysits). His bereavement turns to suspicion and rage when he begins to suspect that his wife was having an affair with another man from the town. Ingimundur's spiraling obsession with uncovering the truth gradually puts himself, his loved ones and others into increasingly dangerous circumstances.

In Icelandic with English subtitles. (Running time 109 minutes)

Click here to read a review of the film.

A Wider Angle film series is made possible through funding provided by the Friends of the Library.