Cold Light

Cold Light

Do you sometimes feel that you know something will happen before it does? Something bad…

2004 · 90 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.

Directed by Hilmar Oddsson · Written by Vigdís Grímsdóttir

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