Wednesday 12th February 2025
Location: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny. R95 D320
Baltasar Kormákur’s deeply moving film is based on the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay. This is a rich study of love and grief that’s both heartbreaking and achingly romantic.
Iceland, early 2020. Widower Kristófer’s memory has started failing, and he decides now is his last chance to track down his estranged first love. Through flashbacks, we learn Kristófer worked in a Japanese restaurant while he was a student in 1960s London. There, he met and fell in love with the owner’s daughter, Miko. Now, despite his own daughter’s pleas and looming travel lockdowns, Kristófer flies to London to find Miko – more than 50 years after she abruptly left without a goodbye.
Dir: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Palmi Kormakur, Masahiro Motoki

121 mins. Iceland / UK / USA. 2024. 12A (IFCO) / 15 (BBFC)
Touch is an uncommonly poignant drama that balances rich sentimentality with more harrowing themes. Only cynics will resist a swoon or three.
Hilary White, Irish Independent
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