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.