THB #569: Touch

This is one of those weird columns.

I went to a movie last night, thinking it was an early screening. It was not. The film opens this Friday.

But I watched it with the thought in my head that by having the screening at the DGA with the director in tow, it was some kind of tastemaker screening.

The movie is called Touch and it stars no one you have likely ever heard of before. The filmmaker, Baltasar Kormákur, is a name you know… or you should if you have been an active moviegoer in the last 20 years. Kormákur broke through with 101 Reykjavík 24 years ago. The film co-won the Discovery Award at TIFF, tied with George Washington, which launched the career of David Gordon Green.

Kormákur started working in “Hollywood,” in English, in 2010, but has gone back to Iceland often to work and to find stories that go back to his roots between bigger projects. I have been a fan of some of his films (The Deep… 2 Guns… Adrift) and a few not so much (Beast). But I do try to see everything he makes.

So…