Hlynur Pálmason, whose Godland (2022) chronicled a fraught Herzogian trek across Iceland’s darkly forbidding landscape, turns from the epic to the intimate with The Love That Remains, which explores the ties that tenaciously bind a family after the breakup of its central couple, Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason). If that summary seems to promise a gloom-enshrouded psychodrama – perhaps a riff on Scenes from a Marriage by that most famous of furrowed-brow Nordic filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman – The Love That Remains will wonderfully surprise. Although punctuated with moments of tension and white-hot flares of anger, the film gracefully sidesteps pervasive grimness with antic humor, interludes of transporting natural beauty, and increasingly frequent excursions into surreal fantasies (wait for the giant avenging chicken). Brimming with enchantments, The Love That Remains even includes an irresistibly charming performance by Pálmason’s own