A Painter (2013)

Original title

En Maler

Directed by

Hlynur Pálmason

Genre

short film, drama film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

30 min

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A famous painter lives alone in a Danish coastal town. His solitude is broken when his son and other people show up unannounced.

quietsolitarycontemplativeabruptstillcool-tonedintrospectivedisrupted

What happens

A Painter (Danish: En maler) is a 2013 Danish short film written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason, starring Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson and Elliott Crosset Hove. The film follows a famous yet solitary painter whose peace and quiet is disrupted by the sudden arrival of his son and other outsiders. A Painter was written and filmed in Skagen, the northernmost town of Denmark, and won the award for the Best Danish Short Film at the Odense Film Festival. The film was made as Pálmason's graduation short from the Danish National Film School, marking his first collaboration with the actor Sigurðsson who has also acted in Pálmason's later films, including A White, White Day (2019) and Godland (2022). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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