The Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason has a habit of talking to himself when walking around nature. On long drives to Reykjavík, he will imagine an entire film in his brain, going through it scene by scene, fixing the details as he goes along. “Sometimes I’ll drive for three hours and completely forget myself,” the 41-year-old tells AnOther during the London Film Festival. “Your surroundings affect what you make.”

That’s especially true for Pálmason, an auteur whohellip;

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