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The Homecoming

Year 2015
Runtime 100 mins
Language Icelandic
Subtitles English

Gunnar’s (Hilmar Jonsson, FROST, BLACK’S GAME) life as a self-help author revolves around teaching the public to confront their problems, but he doesn’t confront his own. He and his wife Herdís (Harpa Arnardóttir, POLITE PEOPLE, THE CLIFF) struggle with marital problems, and he harbours the secret of an affair he had 25 years ago. The couple’s adult son David, (Hilmir Jensson, XL, FROST) returns home from backpacking through Europe, with a new girlfriend, Sunna. (Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir, METALHEAD) and her very existence turns Gunnar’s life upside down when he finds out that her mother was his old flame. He starts to behave oddly, doing everything he can to sabotage his son’s relationship with the girl who is secretly his daughter. He will have to face the truth and risk ending both his marriage and his career.

Countries

Iceland
Director
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Producer
Rakel Garðarsdóttir, Ágústa M. Ólafsdóttir
Screenwriter
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Cinematographer
Elli Cassata
Editor
Frosti Runólfsson
Cast
Hilmar Jónsson, Harpa Arnardóttir, Hilmir Jensson