{"id":24800,"date":"2024-07-09T23:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24800"},"modified":"2024-07-09T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:49:35","slug":"touch-baltasar-palmi-kormakur-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24800","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Touch\u2019: Exclusive Video Interview with Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur and P\u00e1lmi Korm\u00e1kur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur has been making movies both in his home country and in Hollywood for decades, but his latest film, <\/span>Touch<\/i><\/b>, is something that hits a lot closer to home. It\u2019s not just because it begins in Iceland and is based on an Icelandic novel (by Olaf Olafsson), but also because it\u2019s more like the Icelandic films he made before teaming with Mark Wahlberg for <\/span>Contraband<\/i><\/b> in 2012, which took his career on a whole different path.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film stars Icelandic actor and singer Egill \u00d3lafsson as the elderly Krist\u00f3fer, a restaurateur who learns he has a chronic illness. It\u2019s suggested by his doctor that he closes any unfinished business, which in his case, involves a former love who vanished when he was quite young. Baltasar\u2019s son P\u00e1lmi Korm\u00e1kur plays the younger Krist\u00f3fer, who we watch as he gets a job at a Japanese restaurant in London in the early \u201870s, where he meets and falls for Miko (played by Japanese model\/singer <\/span>K\u00f4ki<\/span><\/a>). We watch this relationship unfold via flashback as the older Krist\u00f3fer tries to find answers in the present day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cinema Daily US<\/span><\/i> had a chance to speak with Baltasar and P\u00e1lmi over Zoom a few weeks back to learn what got the director interested in doing something different from his American films, casting his son in a major role, which made it easier to work together, and what it was like working with K\u00f4ki and some of the other Japanese actors. (Also, look for <\/span>Cinema Daily US<\/span><\/i>\u2019s interview with K\u00f4ki very soon.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director: <\/b>Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Screenwriter:<\/b> Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur, Olaf Olafsson<\/span><\/p>\n

Cast: <\/b>Egill \u00d3lafsson, K\u00f4ki, P\u00e1lmi Korm\u00e1kur, Masahiro Motoki, Y\u00f4ko Narahashi, Ruth Sheen, Masatoshi Nakamura<\/span><\/p>\n

Producer: <\/b>Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur, Mike Goodridge, Agnes Johansen<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Production Co: <\/b>Good Chaos, RVK Studios<\/span><\/p>\n

Distributor:<\/b> Focus Features<\/span><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/b> R (Sexuality|Language|A Scene of Violence)<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/b> Drama, Romance<\/span><\/p>\n

Language:<\/b> Icelandic, Japanese, English<\/span><\/p>\n

Release Date (Theaters):<\/b> July 12, 2024 (limited)<\/span><\/p>\n

Runtime:<\/b> 2 hours 1 minute<\/span><\/p>\n

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