Cannes’ Critics award-winner and Iceland’s official Oscar submission, ‘A White, White Day’, will make its US theatrical premiere on April 17 through Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema and other participating theaters across the country.
With Over 200 North American Theater Partners, including Laemmle Theaters, Alamo Drafthouse and Studio Movie Grill, Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema is the result of an effort to support movie theaters and cinema aficionados during an extremely challenging time.
“We’ve been working around the clock to keep up with the demand from theaters and audiences alike. We’re thrilled that, with the five films we currently have in release, we’ve been able to support art house cinemas, as well as give home viewers the chance to escape for a few hours with the best independent cinema has to offer. Continuing in that vein, we’ll be releasing director Hlynur Palmason’s powerful Cannes award-winner direct to the Virtual Cinema, for its North American theatrical release,” said President of Film Movement, Michael Rosenberg.
‘A White, White Day’, tells the story of an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) in a remote Icelandic town, who begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
Written and Produced by Hylnur Palmason, the film combines classic thriller tropes with a distinctly Nordic arthouse sensibility.
Currently the Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema is offering a slate of five award-winning films including Jan Komasa’s Oscar-nominee ‘Corpus Christi’, Diao Yinan’s noir thriller, ‘The Wild Goose Lake’, Bertrand Bonello’s genre mash-up ‘Zombi Child’ and two digitally restored classics with ‘L’Innocente’, Luchino Visconti’s final film, and ‘Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands’, Sonia Braga’s 1976 sexy breakthrough comedy.
