When the Light Breaks
2024 · Movie · 80 min · ★ 6.7 · 75% critics
Set over one long summer day in Iceland, this intimate drama follows a young art student as love, friendship, sorrow, and fleeting moments of beauty collide. It stays close to private emotions, showing how a life can feel changed between one sunset and the next.
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Details
- Original title
- Ljósbrot
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-10-17
- Language
- IS
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (38 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re drawn to quiet, emotional dramas with a reflective mood, especially if Solitude or The Human Voice worked for you; Not for you if you want a fast-moving or plot-heavy story.
Pros: intimate emotional story; beautiful Iceland setting; delicate, moving atmosphere | Cons: very slow pace; simple story; some scenes feel stretched
Themes
- art student
- loss of a friend
- pansexual
- deep sadness
Cast & crew
Elín Hall
as Una
Mikael Kaaber
as Gunni
Katla Njálsdóttir
as Klara
Ágúst Örn B. Wigum
as Bassi
Gunnar Hrafn Kristjánsdóttir
as Siggi
Baldur Einarsson
as Diddi
- DT
Daria Testoedova
as Jane
Þorsteinn Bachmann
Tómas Howser Harðarson
as Drengur
- BK
Bjarni Kristbjörnsson
as Student at arts university
Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson