“Separated” is a fraught, transitional term in human relationships, prone to conflicting definitions by partners who have long been inclined towards conflict: a prelude to a permanent end for one, a conciliatory pause for the other. In Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason‘s striking, emotionally febrile marital drama ”The Love That Remains,” artist Anna (Saga Gardarsdottir) is ready to be be separate rather than separated from her seafaring husband Magnus (Sverrir Gudnason), while he doggedly maintains a presence in the house she shares with their three children, and occasionally her bed as well. It’s a semblance of domestic stability that she finds ever less stabilizing.
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