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Touch

2024 · 121 min

A gentle, bittersweet journey through memory and loss, carried by quiet longing and the ache of what might have been.

Directed by
Baltasar Kormákur
Genres
Romance, Drama
Starring
Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
Tagline
Discover what might have been.
Overview
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.

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Directed by
Baltasar Kormákur
Genres
Romance, Drama
Starring
Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • love
  • grief
  • family
  • aging
Places
  • big city
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

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