"On the surface, The Love That Remains is a story about normal people with normal feelings and normal problems, like how to raise a family while going through a divorce and what to do when one of your kids - who are played by Pálmason's children - shoots the other in the chest with a bow and arrow. (He's fine, but he's gonna need a new sweater.)Buried deep are existential questions."
""Often I think about what is the meaning of all this? When you go through life, you have moments of doubt about just life and things and what's the meaning of all of it," Pálmason tells me. "It's so silly, all of it." He's right. It is silly. It's also life? As we pass through the seasons with Anna and Magnus, we begin to learn what's left between them."
Anna and Magnus built a life with three children and a dog before separating. The film follows their lives as the reality of divorce sets in and their future becomes strained by unraveling. Ordinary domestic moments and parenting challenges shape the narrative, including an incident in which one child, played by Pálmason’s child, accidentally shoots another in the chest with a bow and arrow. The tone stays lighter than weightier period work while embedding existential questions about meaning and silliness in life. The dog Panda won the Palm Dog Award at Cannes. Production on this film overlapped with the period film Godland.
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