The Love That Remains

Name: The Love That Remains
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: January 30, 2026
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 76

2026

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Janus Films | Release Date: January 30, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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The Film Stage Luke Hicks

Oct 29, 2025

The screenplay is overflowing with memorable meditations, blunt-but-heartfelt exchanges, and piercing affection for its people, all rooted in the natural world around them. Read full review

The Travers Take Peter Travers

Jan 30, 2026

I kept smiling watching this fractured family drama. A bizarre reaction for an Icelandic movie about the end of a marriage. But it’s the high spirits that stay with you in Hlynur Pálmason's charmer about the intangibles of love. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Jan 28, 2026

The resulting drama might have been exasperating for its surface passivity if Pálmason’s faith in his actors and other regular collaborators, as well as his knack for composition (he’s also the movie’s cinematographer), didn’t pay off so regularly and so viscerally. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Oct 29, 2025

As the title suggests, this isn’t a film focused simply on the ruins of a relationship so much as one with an eye on what’s worth keeping. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Oct 29, 2025

There’s an undertow of melancholy certainly, but also a light, buoyant quality to a film that cherishes its moments of humour and absurdity. Read full review

IndieWire David Katz

Oct 29, 2025

Pálmason’s overall sincerity has its dividends, even for what it lacks in candidness: the poignant closing shot distills that this is his vision on this eternal topic, open to the risk that its alternating visual modes won’t harmonize. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 29, 2025

The effect is tender, sympathetic, diverting and often very elegant and indirect. But it withholds from us the full, real pain of damaged love. Read full review

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