When it comes to cinema, love and death are medium bread and butter. The new drama, when the breakdown of light, provides its work on these two universal topics, which features a latest and most honest approach I have seen on the big screen in a while.
The latest film by Iceland director Runner Runson, when the light breaks down, is followed by an art school student Anna (Alan Hall) in 24 hours when he found out that his boyfriend Daddy (Baldour Ectson) was killed in a strange traffic accident. His grief is even more complicated by the fact that his case was a secret, and Daddy was tied to his long -term girlfriend Clara (Katala Najlisditir) when he died. Anna has spent that day with a small group of Daddy’s childhood friends and Clara, who arrive in Riczhok while hearing the news.
Jona struggles with the anger that causes Clara and her sympathy as well as the crime of the dishonesty of her and her secret and the weight of her secret and the weight of her secret – which was previously joint, but now it is firmly firmly on her shoulders.
“I just had to get it out of my system”
When the light is broken, Runson is dedicated to two friends who passed away and, although this is the work of the film fiction, but it has channeled its own grief experiences. “This is a relief. I just had to get it out of my system, in a way,” said Ranerson in an interview. Brand. “But when something, like a box, stands on a shelf for a long time, and then you move it, it left an empty space. I managed to get rid of the box, and I’m glad it has gone, but nothing will be replaced.”
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The theories of grief and loss are more inspected with a piece of music that repeat the whole film: This is from late musician Johan Johaninson, who scored films like screw and arrival and died in 2018. This piece is one of Johaninson’s first tasks, but was never used in a movie before.
Emotional debris
When the light breaks, this thing has impressed me the most, though (in addition to its beautiful cinema graphy, which is shot by Sofia Olson, which caught both the sun and the highway tunnel in the summer of Iceland with equal labor care), was his integrity. It does not find the answers to moral and emotional complexities itself, nor does it seek morality on one or the other. Another simple script will force us to sympathize with Clara or to devise Anna, but instead invites us to sit with both women and their joint and separate grief.
A particularly dynamic scene has been observed that both women brush their teeth in Didi’s bathroom with their teeth: Anna arrives for her teeth brush, but she realized that she needed to face unfamiliarity with the place, instead squeezed the toothpaste on her finger. When Clara joins her, she does the same thing in solidarity, while the knowledge that Anna has been in the exact place several times before, before the pair is hanged.
When the light breaks, it is full of complex moments – the small, intimate movements among the people are trying to make the worst day of their lives, which is so irritating and tragedy in hope and happiness. Love and death are good for a reason .The topics are: When your life runs in real time, there is not a right way to behave, but when the light is broken, an attempt is made to choose emotional debris.
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