The Love That Remains

2025 [IS]

Comedy / Drama / Family

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 94% · 51 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 94%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1111 1.1K

artist multiple storylines divorced parents family life brother brother relationship lighthearted

Plot summary

Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

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999.55 MB
1280*960
Is 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 48 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 10 / 10

Grest

The Love That Remains completely took me by surprise - such a raw, honest, and beautiful portrayal of a family navigating separation. I felt genuinely connected to every moment: the quiet heartbreak, the weird little joys, and the very real emotional shifts between the characters. It's one of those movies that doesn't just tell a story - it makes you live it. The way it shows how people grow, falter, and love in imperfect ways is so moving that I found myself thinking about it for days. Beautifully crafted, heartfelt, and unforgettable. A total 10/10.
Reviewed by 8 / 10

Looks like a collage of home made videos, but there is some system inside

In some of my recent reviews of Norwegian films I mentioned the boom of Norwegian cinema we are experiencing at the moment. The same can be said about Icelandic cinema. In the 2010's an Icelandic film was still a white raven, but in the 2020's I have seen an Icelandic film almost every year.Director Hlynur Palmason has made some noteworthy movies in the past, such as "A white, white day" (2019) and "Godland" (2022). "The love that remains" is however an entirely different movie. It feels like a collage of home made videos and reading an interview with him after seeing the movie this turns out to be not far from the truth.The director is also cinematographer.The children in the film are his own children.Last but not least some shots are taken during the years and are fit into the script only later."The love that remains" is a film about a divorce, but it is very different from for example "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979, Robert Benton), the film that comes first to my mind with respect to the "divorce" subject.The divorce in "Kramer vs. Kramer" is a contested divorce. In "The love that remains" the ex spouses are still on speaking terms (as the title already indicates).It becomes clear that the initiative of the divorce lies with the woman. She felt that the marriage had become a rut and that she and her husband had grown apart. The man has still not given up the hope on a reunification.After seeing the movie you realise that there is some system in the "home made videos" inserted into the movie. A couple of them portray processes of erosion, symbolizing the rut that has krept into the marriage.In "Kramer vs Kramer" the child is just an object whose custody the parents are fighting over. In "The love that remains" the children are subjects with different opinions about the relationship of their parents. The biggest disagreement is whether it would be a good thing if their parents not only continued talking to each other but also still had sex.
Reviewed by 10 / 10

Then the strange things start

For the first 20 minutes or so, this film seems set to a thorouhly likeable but rather ordinary film about a nice couple (with nice kids) trying stay friends after a divorce. But then the strange things starts. I really don't want to tell you what they are, you really need to experience it yourself. Suffice to say that this film becomes magical, funny, scary, wise, sad, strange, funny again, and still it's the whole time about this ordinary couple and their wonderful kids, not to mention their dog and an assortment of other animals. A wonderful film, just go see it.
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