Celluloid Dreams Weds with Kormákur’s latest comedy

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Baltasar Kormákur’s domestic hit might make international waves, especially since sales company Celluloid Dreams are on board. The company has picked up the Icelandic rom-com White Night
Wedding
a should be successful in parting with distribution rights in several pockets of the globe.  Coming off his  huge domestic box office hit with Jar City – the filmmaker will return to English-language fair with Run for Her Life.

Loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s play Ivanov, White Night Wedding tells, the story of Jon, a university teacher who is trying to figure out his life and himself during one bright summer night in the island of Flatey, which lies in the Firth of Breidafjordur in West Iceland. White Night Wedding, or Brudguminn in Icelandic, is a light comedy about the joy of life and search for happiness, although with bittersweet undertones, for there is never light without some streaks of shadow.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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