It’s kind of been a minute since we’ve heard from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Starting his career with acclaimed Icelandic films and thrillers like “101 Reykjavík,” “The Sea,” and “A Little Trip to Heaven,” he then graduated to Hollywood filmmaking, taking on commercial action and thriller efforts like “Contraband,” “2 Guns,” and the mountain climbing film “Everest” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and an ensemble American cast. Kormákur’s last two pictures were both star-laden efforts, the survival thriller “Adrift” and the survival horror action thriller “Beast” starring Idris Elba. But for his latest effort, “Touch,” coming out this summer, he returns to Iceland to make a romantic thriller and a love story years and miles in the making.
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Featuring a mostly international cast, “Touch” features Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur, Masahiro Motoki, Yoko Narahashi, Meg Kubota, Tatsuya Tagawa, Charles Nishikawa, Sigurður Ingvarsson, Benedikt Erlingsson, Kieran Buckeridge, Ruth Sheen, María Ellingsen, and Masatoshi Nakamura.
The “Touch” screenplay is by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson and Baltasar Kormákur based on the best-selling novel also by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. A heart-wrenching love story and an absorbing mystery, “Touch” delves into the secrets of the past to explore the hidden lives that we all possess, the pain and beauty of our past loves and friendships that continue to leave their mark on us
Here’s the official synopsis:
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; TOUCH follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.
Focus Features will release “Touch” in-theaters on Friday, July 12. Watch the first trailer below.