Film Review: “Touch”

Wistful love story deftly captures the ephemeral nature of time

Miko (Kôki)) and Kristófer (Palmi Kormákur) fall in love after meeting at her father’s restaurant.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, known for his edge-of-your seat survival adventure pictures like Everest and Adrift, might not be the first name you’d think of to adapt a romantic mystery for the big screen. But with Touch, his adaptation of fellow Icelander Olaf Olasson’s 2022 novel of the same name, Kormákur proves he’s just as skilled at plumbing the depths of the human heart as he is the drive of the human spirit.

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